LAW 9099 - Civil Rights History from Plessy to Brown

Effective Date 04/08/2009
This course explores the various meanings of civil rights in the 50 years that preceded Brown v. Board of Education. Examining civil rights cases from Plessy v. Ferguson through World War II and beyond, the course emphasizes recreating the uncertainties that characterized civil rights doctrine in the 1940s.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis Graded