Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement.

Chronicling a Movement for Civil Rights

The American Civil Rights Tradition-- Anticlassification or Antisubordination?

With the publication of Groups and the Equal Protection Clause, I Owen Fiss inaugurated the antisubordination tradition in legal scholarship of the Second Reconstruction. Antisubordination theorists contend that guarantees of equal citizenship cannot be realized under conditions of pervasive social stratification and argue that law should reform institutions and practices that enforce the secon...

The Paradox of Civil Rights

Sociological Meta-Analysis of Civil Rights

Introduction: Citizenship rights is a set of rules governing society in relation to politics, institutions, governments and civil society. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the awareness of citizenship rights using meta-analysis. Method: The mechanism of conducting research is meta-analysis-quantitative. The purpose of this method is to integrate, systemati...

"The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?": The anti-abortion movement and the struggle for racial justice.

In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading ...