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

Join the ACS Michigan 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.

Michelle Adams:

is 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.

James Tobin:

is the Professor of Journalism at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Educated at the University of Michigan, where he earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees in history, he spent 20 years as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer. His books include Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II (Free Press, 1997), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography; To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight (Free Press, 2003), which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award; and The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency (Simon & Schuster, 2013). In the classroom he specializes in narrative nonfiction, both historical and contemporary.

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