Table of Contents:
  • Voices from Peoria
  • The CRS's legal and political strategies for improving civil rights protections
  • Dead dogs, bad divorces, and dope-peddling sheriffs : the subject matter of civil rights complaint letters
  • The common place of lawyering : using legal and constitutional arguments to support novel civil rights claims
  • Underlying commitments of rights claiming: extralegal persuasive claims and citizen understandings of law
  • In defense of extravagant rights talk
  • Appendix. Notes on the archival sources.