A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights

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From the News Vault
(May 25, 2005)

The Library of Congress: Judge Robert L. Carter, an intellectual architect for the civil rights movement and the man who argued the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court, discussed his recently published memoir, “A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights.” “A Matter of Law” is the story of Carter’s struggle for equal rights for all Americans. As chief legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall and then as general counsel to the NAACP, he played a central role in crafting the legal strategy for pivotal desegregation cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board, the celebrated case that outlawed segregation in the nation’s public schools. As a civil rights lawyer, Carter led the fight to dismantle the legal structure of segregation in the South, and then brought the campaign North.

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