Congratulations to Professor Michael Klarman of U. Va. Law School, who has been awarded the Bancroft Prize in history, one the profession’s highest honors, for his excellent book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights. According to a U. Va. press release, the Bancroft jurors noted that “Klarman’s examination of this classic problem in American constitutional history is not only our best account of Brown, its antecedents and consequences, but also goes well beyond that important story to make a larger set of arguments about the role of the Supreme Court in helping to bring about social change.”
You can read an abstract and full-text PDF of my coauthored review of Klarman’s book at the Yale Law Journal’s website.
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