The term \'Civil rights\' has such a familiar presence in discussions about American politics and law that we tend to use it reflexively and intuitively, but rarely do we stop to think about what exactly we mean when we use the term and why certain uses strike us as right or wrong.
Through their struggles over what it means.
Schmidt tells the story of how Americans have fought over the meaning of Civil Rights from the Civil War through today.
In this book, Professor Christopher W.
The term \'Civil rights\' has such a familiar presence in discussions about American politics and law that we tend to use it reflexively and intuitively, but rarely do we stop to think about what exactly we mean when we use the term and why certain uses strike us as right or wrong