Civil Rights: Leading Cases

by Derrick A. Bell (Editor)

This volume contains a selection of edited opinions in 37 major Supreme Court cases in the racial area. In addition to providing the actual language of the Supreme Court's most important racial cases, the opinions are presented in chronological order to provide a sense of how the law developed. Page numbers of the official U.S. Reports are included in brackets to facilitate citation and to permit the reader to gauge the extent of editing.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was the first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School and is largely credited as one of the originators of critical race theory (CRT). He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 1991 until his death. He was also a dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. [wikipedia]