The Civil Rights Movement - LAW 6121-3 Hours This course
examines central themes, institutions and legal and political
events surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. The course will
examine the Civil Rights Movement in three parts. Part I will
consider the major judicial decisions related to the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments leading up to the Supreme
Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Part II will
focus on the Civil Rights campaign between 1955 and the passage
of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Part III will consider the
legal legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Themes discussed
within this study will include the relationship between civil
rights and the federal courts, and the interaction of formal
legal rules, informal social attitudes, and organized political
action.