Race Relations Litigation in an Age of Complexity. (book reviews)

Susan M. Olson, University of Utah

This book pulls together Stephen Wasby's long-time research on civil rights litigation, some of which has appeared in articles and papers over the past decade and a half. Based on secondary sources and interviews with 41 lawyers, it is an ambitious and impressive work of scholarship that documents many facets of civil rights litigation from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Although the focus is heavily on litigation on behalf of African Americans, Wasby makes frequent comparisons with similar litigation by women, other ethnic minorities, and ...

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