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Title Afro-Americans and the evolution of a living Constitution : a symposium of the Smithsonian Institution and the Joint Center for Political Studies, March 15-16, 1988, Washington, D.C
Published [Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource ([12], iv, 76, [12] pages) : illustrations
Contents Opening remarks / Robert McC. Adams and Eddie N. Williams --Slavery, the Constitution, and the founding fathers / Mary Frances Berry -- Teaching a living Constitution / Mabel McKinney-Browning [and others] -- Race and the Constitution in the 19th century / John Hope Franklin -- Race, the courts, and constitutional change in the 19th and 20th centuries / Randall L. Kennedy and Wiley A. Branton -- The 20th century struggle for constitutional change : litigation, protest, and politics / Darlene Clark Hine [and others] -- The Bicentennial of the Constitution : from a racial perspective / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. -- Race and the politics of constitutional change : Congress and the executive / Matthew Holden Jr. and Gary Orfield
Civil Rights Movement as a model for other groups and communities / W. Richard West, Jr., Karen O'Connor, and Harry Pachon -- The legacy of racial discrimination : who pays the cost? / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. -- Racial equality and full citizenship : the unfinished agenda / Julius L. Chambers [and others] -- Closing remarks / Milton Morris and James Early -- Teleconference / John Hope Franklin [and others]
Notes "Conference program and summary"--Cover
Symposium text preceded by un-numbered "Program" section and followed by un-numbered "Participants" section
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Subject African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- Congresses
Constitutional law -- United States -- Congresses
Race discrimination -- United States -- Congresses
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Congresses
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Congresses
African Americans.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Constitutional law.
Race discrimination.
United States.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Smithsonian Institution, sponsoring body
Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.), sponsoring body.