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Book Review


We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law. By Alexander Tsesis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 369 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11837-7.)
We Shall Overcome is a comprehensive survey of civil rights from 1776 to the present. "The book's main focus is on the treatment of disempowered groups in the United States" (p. 5). Much of the text recounts events in African American history, but there are additional, briefer discussions of other groups, especially women, homosexuals, and Japanese Americans. The work is essentially a synopsis that retells scores of standard stories. . . .
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