The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (Chicago Series in Law and Society) PDF Book

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Author : Christopher W. Schmidt
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On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in their seats until the store closed. In the following days, they returned, joined by growing numbers of fellow students. These “sit-in” demonstrations soon spread to other southern cities, drawing in thousands of students and coalescing into a protest movement that would transform the struggle for racial equality.

The Sit-Ins tells the story of the student lunch counter protests and the national debate they sparked over the meaning of the constitutional right of all Americans to equal protection of the law. Christopher W. Schmidt describes how behind the now-iconic scenes of African American college students sitting in quiet defiance at “whites only” lunch counters lies a series of underappreciated legal dilemmas—about the meaning of the Constitution, the capacity of legal institutions to remedy different forms of injustice, and the relationship between legal reform and social change. The students’ actions initiated a national conversation over whether the Constitution’s equal protection clause extended to the activities of private businesses that served the general public. The courts, the traditional focal point for accounts of constitutional disputes, played an important but ultimately secondary role in this story. The great victory of the sit-in movement came not in the Supreme Court, but in Congress, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark legislation that recognized the right African American students had claimed for themselves four years earlier. The Sit-Ins invites a broader understanding of how Americans contest and construct the meaning of their Constitution.

Book ID Asin: B07B6S38V4
Book Title: The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Book Author: Christopher W. Schmidt
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07B6S38V4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press (March 13, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1348 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 022652244X

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Name: Radnae & C. Punk
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A shiny happy version of the story. The material, evidence, and writing are top-notch.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2020
Review: Historically accurate, and a great look from the legal system’s perspective. My problem with the book is that the violence the protesters faced is almost completely ignored, white-washed even. First, the A&T Four, were not the first lunch counter sit-in. Sit-ins were taking place as early as 1948. The focus and attention paid to Greensboro’s Woolworth’s is because it was one of the only ones that didn’t face extreme violent opposition. Parading this as an epitome of the era is deceitful. Other protesters and supporters were beaten, punched, kicked, shot, stabbed, and murdered for protesting in nearby cities. These are mentioned enough to not say they were avoided completely, and to paint a rosy colored story of the past. The word “killed” appears one time in the book and was about Emmet Till’s murder in 1955. “Violence” and “violent” appear less than 10 times but do not refer to what occurred, only to perceived threats, or police behavior. I did a full break down of the appearance of violent words, so I can say with confidence; Read this for it’s legal insights. Do not read it as a historically complete version of events. It is a conqueror’s version of history.

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