Andrew Friedman

Civil Rights for Christmas

This month, Carolina Academic Press will be publishing an excellent new book, Awakening from the Dream, Civil Rights under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice. And I'm not just saying that because I helped to contribute a chapter.

The editors, Denise Morgan, Rachel Godsil and Joy Moses, have done an excellent job of putting together a comprehensive assesment of what has happened to the civil rights won through struggle decades ago, and what can be done to re-vitalize the civil rights movement.

Here's how the editors describe the book:

In Awakening From the Dream: Civil Rights under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice exposes the Supreme Court's methodical dismantling of federal laws that advance inclusion, equal membership, political participation, and economic mobility in our diverse national community. The ongoing Federalism Revolution
has crippled Congress's legislative powers and made it difficult for individuals to bring suit to enforce their civil rights. Activists, law professors, public interest lawyers, and students discuss some of the Americans who have been deprived of justice by this rollback, making vivid the impact of the increasingly right-wing federal
judiciary.

The book can be ordered at www.caplaw.com.

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Posted at 9:13 AM, Dec 07, 2005 in Civil Rights
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