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The course will consider doctrinal changes established by the Supreme Court and Congress, with an emphasis on how much dramatic changes are made. It also will address the roles played by lay persons and groups seeking to enforce and challenge laws, as well as by lawyers, legal organizations, and judges. It will assess goals that were not achieved - the failures as well as the successes of this social justice movement. When first offered, its subject will be law, lawyers, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.