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Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 (Updated Edition) by Mark V. Tushnet Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-19-510468-4 / 0195104684 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510468-4 / 9780195104684 From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin Luther King could ma |