Civil Rights in America

Christopher W. Schmidt is a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States, a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and the editor of Law & Social Inquiry. Professor Schmidt received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (2018).

• Introduction; 1. The birth of civil rights – reconstruction; 2. The transformation of civil rights – the Jim Crow years; 3. Civil rights reborn – the 1940s and 1950s; 4. Beyond civil rights – the 1960s; 5. Getting right with the civil rights movement; 6. Civil rights everywhere; Conclusion.

'Schmidt provides a sweeping view of the history of civil rights in America that few other books can match.' Adam Lee Cilli, Journal of Southern History