Top of page

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

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

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

Summary

  • 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.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2005-05-25.

Headings

  • -  African American History
  • -  Government, Law
  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Education
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  judge robert carter, civil rights

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Law.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Judge Robert L. Carter.
  • -  Recorded on 2005-05-25.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  Visitors.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687693

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present.  Rights assessment is your responsibility.  The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.  Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete.

More about Copyright and other Restrictions

For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources.

Credit Line: Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-25, 2005. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687693/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2005) A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-25. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687693/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-25, 2005. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687693/>.