ACS Washington, DC: Book Talk with Michelle Adams, Author of "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

Please join the ACS Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter for an enlightening book talk of with esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams, author of The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, a definitive history of the landmark Milliken v. Bradley Supreme Court case. Adams examines how the 1974 decision effectively ended school desegregation efforts in the North, shaping racial and educational inequalities that persist today. In conversation with Professor Sheryll Cashin, Adams delves into the legal, cultural, and political legacies of this pivotal case.

Featuring:

Michelle Adams

is the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and former codirector of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Adams served on the Biden administration’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court and has contributed to The New Yorker, The Yale Law Journal, and more. She is the author of The Containment and an expert commentator on civil rights and constitutional law.

Sheryll Cashin

Cashin is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University. She teaches Constitutional Law and Race & American Law among other subjects and is an acclaimed author. She writes about racial justice and democracy. Her most recent book, White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality, is about the role of segregation and redlining in reproducing inequality. Her books have been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction (2015), and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction (2005, 2009, and 2018). Cashin is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and an active member of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council. A contributing writer for Politico Magazine, she has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Salon, The Root, and others.

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