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CLEAR Distinguished Lecture: Dylan Penningroth—Before the Movement
The UC Irvine Law Center for Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) welcomes Professor Dylan Penningroth to discuss his book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023). Book signing and reception to follow.
Publisher's Description
The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn’t join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law. Soon, ordinary African Americans, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists, launched the civil rights movement.