Summary Of Jack Greenburg's Crusaders In The Courts

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This week’s reading is from Jack Greenburg’s “Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement”. Chapter 12 “The School Segregation Cases and Our Cast of Characters” discusses the formation of the Legal Defense Fund and the NAACP as two separate institutions caused by concepts of professionalism outlined by ?, like money, autonomy, strain, and a structural hierarchy, similar to the transformation of other professions. This chapter also outlines the fight against segregation as a top-down strategy of legal realism (CITE) where law serves as a catalyst for change. These concepts and the key players in this fight were also outlined in the documentary viewed in class, The Road to Brown. These institutional actors, much like

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