Civil rights and public accommodations
the Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung cases
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Author
Publication
2001 - University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan, Kansas
Language
English
Word Count
56,250 words, Guess
Page Count
225 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecivilrightspubli0000cort
- ISBN-100700610774
- ISBN-139780700610778
- LibraryThing3955451
- Goodreads800666
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- Library of Congress Control Number00049956
- OCLC Control Number45172942
- Better World Books9780700610778
- Open LibraryOL6789600M
Classifications
- DDC342.73/085
- LCCKF228.H43 C67 2001
- LCCKF228.H43C67 2001
and 1 more
- LCCKF 228 H43 C67 2001
Description
"The struggle for civil rights in America was fought at the lunch counter as well as in the streets. It ultimately found victory in the halls of government - but, as Richard Cortner reveals, only through a creative use of congressional power and critical judicial decisions.". "Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, and shortly after its passage blacks were refused service at the Heart of Atlanta Motel and at Ollie's Barbecue in Birmingham, Alabama, as a test of the new law by business owners who claimed the right to choose their own customers. These challenges made their way to the Supreme Court, becoming landmark cases frequently cited in law. Until now, however, they have never benefited from book-length analysis. Cortner provides an inside account of the litigation in both decisions to tell how they spelled the end to segregation in the South."--BOOK JACKET.
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