Reflections on Race, the Constitution, and Growing up in the Segregated South

Authors

Walter Dellinger, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

The following passages are excerpted from the manuscript entitled Balcony Reserved for White Spectators that Walter Dellinger was writing at the time of his death in February 2022. These particular excerpts were chosen first and foremost because they demonstrate Dellinger’s unwavering and lifelong commitment to the pursuit of racial justice. But they were also chosen because they illustrate the array of talents that Dellinger brought to his work—his encyclopedic knowledge of constitutional history, his powers of legal analysis and persuasion, his attunement to the latent meanings in popular culture, and last, but certainly not least, his spellbinding storytelling.

Note: The excerpts have been lightly edited, reordered, and notated in order to fit into a law review format.

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Citation

Walter Dellinger, Reflections on Race, the Constitution, and Growing up in the Segregated South, 102 North Carolina Law Review 1429-1448 (2024)