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Strict Scrutiny
It explored how Black Americans interacted with the law in their daily lives and how those interactions shaped the law, legal thought, and social movements from the 1830s to the 1970s, prior to the conventional narratives of the civil rights movement.
Your new book is also prize winning even though it is very recent it has already been recognized with the Ellis Holly Prize and the Merle-Curdy Social History Award
— Episode: Project 2025: 900 Pages and 100% Derange...
Episode: Project 2025: 900 Pages and 100% Deranged
It explored how Black Americans interacted with the law in their daily lives and how those interactions shaped the law, legal thought, and social movements from the 1830s to the 1970s, prior to the conventional narratives of the civil rights movement.
Your new book is also prize winning even though it is very recent it has already been recognized with the Ellis Holly Prize and the Merle-Curdy Social History Award
It's been a real journey to write this book You probably saw somewhere in the opening pages that it took me 20 years to write it
It really was and I think one of the other things that probably comes across on the page is that it's very personal in many places I work in stories about my family I was inspired in many ways by them
It's a very hearty strict scrutiny welcome to you Dylan Penningroth, it's great to have you here
The book is called Before the Movement the Hidden History of Civil Rights it is available everywhere books are sold and one of our favorites bookshop.org run don't walk to check it out