"A CRITIC'S VIEW OF THE SUPREME COURT: NINE MEN IN BLACK WHO THINK WHITE." New York Times Magazine. October 13, 1968

New York: New York Times, 1968. Lewis Steel was a lawyer for the NAACP when he wrote this article for The New York Times Magazine in 1968. In the article he challenged the traditional view of the Supreme Court as a liberationist institution, arguing that it "was a white court which would protect the interests of white America in the maintenance of stable institutions. In essence, the Court considered the potential damage to white Americans resulting from the diminution of privilege as more critical than continued damage to the underprivileged." The article was seen as a shot across the bow of both the Court and the NAACP, and the NAACP Board summarily fired Steel. In defense of Steel, the entire NCAAP General Counsel's Office resigned in protest. Steel's article recast the civil rights struggle as one of racial power rather than race relationships. It was arguably one of the most important of the seminal writings for the legal theory we now call Critical Race Theory. This magazine offered here is in about very good condition: clean and bright, with some minor tears at the staples, some tiny corner chips, and only light toning of the newsprint paper.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine.