New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press

by Melvin I. Urofsky and Kermit L. Hall

Book Overview

Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of America's foremost legal historians--Kermit Hall and Melvin Urofsky--provide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Court's canon.

When the New York Times published an advertisement that accused Alabama officials of willfully abusing civil rights activists, Montgomery police commissioner Lester Sullivan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700618031
• ISBN13: 9780700618033
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"