Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality / Richard Kluger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kluger, Richard.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage book ; V-255.

Vintage book ; V-255

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961--Trials, litigation, etc--History.

Brown, Oliver.

Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961.

Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc--History.

Topeka (Kan.).

Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education.

Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.

Segregation in education.

Segregation in education--Law and legislation.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 823 pages, 1 unnumbered page, xxiii pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1977.

Summary:

The Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation and culminated a century long social and legal struggle to establish black equality in the U.S.

Contents:

Part I / Under Color of Law. Together Let Us Sweetly Live; Original Sin; The Special Favorite of the Laws; Not Like Bales of Hay; Coming of Age in Nigger Heaven; Exhibit A; The Raw Deal; Uncle Fearless's Nephew; Stalking the Law of the Jungle; One of the Gang; A Foot in the Door; The Spurs of Texas Are Upon You

Part II / The Courts Below. On the Natural Inferiority of Bootblacks; The Doll Man and Other Experts; Charleston Detour; Prairie Fire; The Menninger Connection; Jim Crow, Inc.; "Stick with Us"; The Pride of Virginia; The Best Place to Attack

Part III / On Appeal. Going for the Jugular; At Loggerheads; The Six-Month Summer; The Arrival of the Superchief; Simple Justice; Visible Man: An Epilogue Twenty Years After.

Notes:

"First Vintage Books Edition, February 1977."

Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1976.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [791]-795) and indexes.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1977

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has ms. annotations, underlines and marginal marks.

Banks Collection copy has review from Book Week laid in.

ISBN:

0394722558

OCLC:

2744981