The Courage of their Convictions cites sixteen landmark civil liberties cases and the individuals who challenged laws that they felt impinged upon their personal freedom and who took their battles to the nation’s highest court of law.
“Thank goodness for the sixteen brave men and women who fought official intolerance all the way to the US Supreme Court. And thanks to the Peter Irons for presenting their moving personal reasons, in their own words, for questioning authority. Like Anthony Lewis’s Gideon’s Trumpet, this book presents constitutional law with a human face. It will be a classic.” —Norman Dorsen, President, American Civil Liberties Union New York University Law School
“A fascinating account of how complex, multi-faceted conduct by individual citizens is forced into narrow, legal categories for decision by our judicial system.” —Thomas I. Emerson, Yale Law School
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Prologue
- âEmotions Bubble and Tempers Flareâ
- 1. Lillian Gobitis v. Minersville School District
- 2. Gordon Hirabayashi v. United States
- 3. J.D. Shelley v. Louis Kraemer
- 4. Lloyd Barenblatt v. United States
- 5. Daisy Bates v. Little Rock
- 6. Robert Mack Bell v. Maryland
- 7. Daniel Seeger v. United States
- 8. Barbara Elfbrandt v. Imogene Russell
- 9. Susan Epperson v. Arkansas
- 10. Mary Beth Tinker v. Des Moines
- 11. Dr. Jane Hodgson v. Minnesota
- 12. Demetrio Rodriguez v. San Antonio
- 13. Jo Carol LaFleur v. Cleveland Board of Education
- 14. Elmer Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
- 15. Ishmael Jaffree v. George Wallace
- 16. Michael Hardwick v. Michael Bowers
- Epilogue
- âDoesnât Anybody Remember the Spanish Inquisition?â
- Sources and Further Readings
- Copyright
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