February is African American History Month - Display

In commemoration of African American History Month, the McKusick Law Library is featuring a new display highlighting several resources in the library's collection that relate to African American history and the law.

Featured titles include:

Outsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy After Brown v. Board / by Elwood Watson

Blacks in the Law: Philadelphia and the Nation / by Geraldine R. Segal; foreword by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

Court of Appeal: The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and Sexual Politics of Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill / edited by Robert Chrisman and Robert L. Allen

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement / edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, et al.

Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism / by Michael Eric Dyson

Fair Ways: How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights in Beaumont, Texas / by Robert J. Robertson

Black Southerners and the Law, 1865-1900 / edited with an introduction by Donald G. Nieman

He Had a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement / by Flip Schulke; designed by Robert S. Nemser

One Dream or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. / by Nathan W. Schlueter

For more information on African American History Month and links to legislative and executive branch documents, click here to access an overview from the Library of Congress.