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Traditionally, civil rights lawyers have focused on establishing anti-discrimination rights in courts. But today, the Movement for Black Lives, abolitionist, and other social movements de-center courts and instead emphasize the need to to build power to advance transformative social change. Can these approaches to social change be reconciled? Through conversation with Ashok Chandran (NAACP LDF), Theodore Shaw (UNC Center for Civil Rights), and Alexis J. Hoag (Brooklyn Law School), co-hosts Olatunde Johnson and Andre Esteves delve into the history of civil rights lawyering, and examine how it is responding to current social movements.
Jack Greenberg ’48, Hon. Constance Baker Motley ’46, and Thurgood Marshall
Episode Guests
Director of the Center for Civil Rights at UNC Chapel Hill.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Brooklyn Law School
Credits
Through the Gale is a production of the Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Grant Making Program in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance.
Production
Written and produced by Andres Estevez and Olatunde Johnson
Edited and recorded by Devan Kortan and Jake Rosati
Special thanks to Michelle Wilson, Julie Godsoe, Cary Midland, and Kara Van Woerden.
Sound Clips
Ella’s Song, Composed by Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock
Instrumentals courtesy of Free Music Archive
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