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The 1st modification places it this fashion: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the liberty of speech, or of the press." but, in 1960, a urban legitimate in Montgomery, Alabama, sued the hot York occasions for libel -- and was once offered $500,000 through an area jury -- as the paper had released an advert serious of Montgomery's brutal reaction to civil rights protests. The centuries of felony precedent at the back of the Sullivan case and the U.S. best Court's historical reversal of the unique verdict are expertly chronicled during this gripping and fantastically readable publication by means of the Pulitzer Prize -- successful felony journalist Anthony Lewis. it truly is our greatest account but of a case that redefined what newspapers -- and traditional voters -- can print or say.
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V. Sullivan. He also taught the case at the Harvard Law School, where he was a Lecturer on Law from 1974 to 1989. Since 1983 he has been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Mr. A. in 1948. He spent four years in the Sunday department of the Times, then three as a reporter for the Washington Daily News, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for articles on the federal loyalty-security program. In 1955 he returned to the Times and won a second Pulitzer in 1963 for his reporting on the Supreme Court.
Blacks died because they were refused admission to white hospitals. Not even the most basic of civil rights, the vote, went untouched. States imposed complex new requirements for registration, such as the ability to expound the meaning of state constitutions, and left it to the subjective judgment of white registrars to say who qualified. The Democratic party in most Southern states excluded blacks from its primaries, which then were the decisive elections. As the decades of the twentieth century passed, the meaning and the human impact of racism became increasingly hard to deny.
Its provisions were modest, creating a Civil Rights Commission and allowing the Justice Department to bring suits against violations of voting rights, but passage of the bill signified a large change in the political climate. But life for blacks in the South did not soon change. White resistance to equal rights became more vocal. White Citizens Councils, organized in many communities, used mass meetings, political endorsements and economic pressure to keep politicians and merchants in line for segregation.