The shifting wind : the Supreme Court and civil rights from Reconstruction to Brown / John R. Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, John R., 1933-

Series:

SUNY series in Afro-American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Civil rights--United States--History.

Civil rights.

United States.

United States. Supreme Court--History.

Physical Description:

vii, 393 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999]

Summary:

Examines the significant role played by the U.S. Supreme Court in shaping race relations and affecting civil rights in the period between the end of the Civil War and the 1954 Brown decision.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights 1

2. The Meaning of Freedom 35

3. The First Cases 71

4. From Pace to Plessy: If Not Slavery

What? 117

5. American Apartheid 156

6. The Court and the "Golden Age of Segregation" 195

7. From Scottsboro to Gaines 223

8. The Road to Brown 267

9. Brown v. Board of Education 300

10. The Post-Brown Era 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-384) and index.

ISBN:

0791440893

0791440907

OCLC:

39042957