Kate Masur’s “Until Justice Be Done” wins American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Prize
January 5, 2023
Historian Kate Masur’s latest book Until Justice Be Done: American’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Prize. The John Phillip Reid Book Prize is presented annually for the best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar in Anglo-American legal history, broadly defined.
Masur, a Professor of History at Northwestern, describes in her book the events leading up to the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment — pieces of legislation that marked the inception of the first civil rights movement.
Until Justice Be Done has been met with significant acclaim since its 2021 release, having received the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize, been named finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History and listed one of the New York Times’ Best Books of 2021.
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