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The Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC) was formed in 1964 to provide lawyers for civil rights activists in Southern states who were arrested in connection with demonstrations, marches, voter registration efforts, sit-ins and other protest activities.[1]
Organization[edit]
Closing[edit]
See also[edit]
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Civil Rights Union
- American Jewish Congress
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Freedom Rides
- NAACP
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- National Council of Churches
- National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
- Political freedom
- Selma to Montgomery marches
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ Spriggs 2017, p. 212.
Sources[edit]
Books[edit]
- Fairclough, Adam (2008). Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 (softcover) (2nd ed.). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3114-0.
- Hilbink, Thomas M. (May 1, 1993). Filling the Void: The Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee and the 1964 Freedom Summer (PDF) (Senior honors thesis). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network (SSRN). doi:10.2139/ssrn.2416592.
- Honigsberg, Peter Jan (2000). Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (hardcover) (1st ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22147-5.
- Sobol, Richard B. (January 2016). The Lawyers Constitution Defense Committee in Louisiana 1965-1968 (Microsoft Word document) (2nd revision ed.).
- Spriggs, Kent, ed. (2017). Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980 (hardcover) (1st ed.). Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-5432-2.
- Van Meter, Matthew (2020). Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South (hardcover) (1st ed.). New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-43503-1.
Newspapers[edit]
Websites[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Dittmer, John (1995). "Index". Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi (softcover) (Illustrated ed.). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press,. ISBN 978-0-252-06507-1.
LCDC: 229-230, 335-336
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - Goluboff, Risa (2017). "Index". Vagrant Nation : Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s (softcover) (1st ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-069904-8.
LCDC: 127-128
- Jelinek, Donald A. (2020). "Index". White Lawyer, Black Power : A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South (softcover). Foreword by John Dittmer. (1st ed.). Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-64336-118-5.
LCDC: 205-206