Book: Justice Deferred
People of a certain age got used to thinking of the US Supreme Court as a protector of civil rights — from desegregation in Brown v. Board, to the case that gave police Miranda warnings their name. But a new book argues most of the court’s record on race is more “distressing” and “disgraceful.” The 21st was joined by the book's co-authors, a University of Illinois professor emeritus and a lawyer who used to work for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, to talk about the court's history with race.
GUESTS:
Orville Vernon Burton
Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History, Clemson University | Emeritus University Scholar and Professor of History, University of Illinois | Author, “The Age of Lincoln”
Armand Derfner
Partner, Derfner & Altman | Previously counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
"A gracefully composed and compelling read.. . . Delivering as much about race generally as about racial justice…this is an extremely important and timely story very well told."
— Harvard University Press (@Harvard_Press) August 31, 2021
Justice Deferred by @VernonBurton1 and Armand Derfner in @LAReviewofBooks:https://t.co/Q0o9yJS9D8
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