Down By Law

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Robert L. Carter recounts the legal battles he fought in the name of civil rights—as chief legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall, and as General Counsel to the NAACP. He tells us what went on behind the scenes of Brown v. Board and other important cases in A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights.

Music: Cobb soundtrack (Sony Classical) by Elliot Goldenthal #3/1

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