From Jim Crow to civil rights : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality / Michael J. Klarman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klarman, Michael J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Segregation--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Segregation.

Segregation--Law and legislation.

History.

United States--Race relations--History.

Race relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 655 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Publisher's description: Do Supreme Court decisions matter? In this book, Michale J. Klarman examines the social and political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions involving race relations from Plessy, the Progressive Era, and the Interwar period to World Wars I and II, Brown and the Civil Rights Movement. He explores the wide variety of consequences that Brown may have had - raising the salience of race issues, educating opinion, mobilizing supporters, energizing opponents of racial change. He concludes that Brown was ultimately more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to radical change than for encouraging direct-action protest.

Contents:

The Plessy era

The progressive era

The interwar period

World War II era : context and cases

World War II era : consequences

School desegregation

Brown and the civil rights movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-626) and index.

"Winner of the Bancroft Prize"--Cover.

ISBN:

0195129032

9780195129038

0195310187

9780195310184

OCLC:

51447148

Publisher Number:

9780195129038

Access Restriction:

Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

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