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Amazoncom making civil rights law thurgood marshall and the supreme court 1936 1961 9780195104684 tushnet mark v books. From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation before rosa parks could ignite a montgomery bus boycott the supreme court had to strike down the alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law before martin luther king could march on selma to register voters the supreme court had to find unconstituti. Making civil rights law provides a chronological narrative history of the legal struggle led by thurgood marshall and the naacp legal defense fund that preceded the political battles for civil rights drawing on interviews with thurgood marshall and other naacp lawyers as well as new information about the private deliberations of the supreme . Following on making civil rights law which covered thurgood marshalls career from 1936 1961 this book focuses on marshalls career on the supreme court from 1961 1991 where he was the first african american justicebased on thorough research in the supreme court papers of justice marshall and others this book describes marshalls approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil . From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation before rosa parks could ignite a montgomery bus boycott the supreme court had to strike down the alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law before martin luther king could march on selma to register voters the supreme court had to find unconstitutional the southern