This is not civil rights : discovering rights talk in 1939 America /
Lovell, George I.
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press,
2012, ©2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-250) and index.
Voices from Peoria -- The CRS's legal and political strategies for improving civil rights protections -- Dead dogs, bad divorces, and dope-peddling sheriffs: the subject matter of civil rights complaint letters -- The common place of lawyering: using legal and constitutional arguments to support novel civil rights claims -- Underlying commitments of rights claiming: extralegal persuasive claims and citizen understandings of law -- In defense of extravagant rights talk -- Appendix: notes on the archival sources.
United States. Dept. of Justice. Civil Rights Section
Civil rights
Civil rights
Citizen suits (Civil procedure)
Citizen suits (Civil procedure)
State action (Civil rights)
Complaint letters