Undoing Plessy : Charles Hamilton Houston, race, labor, and the law, 1895-1950 / Gordon Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Gordon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American civil rights workers--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

African Americans--Segregation.

African Americans.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950.

Houston, Charles Hamilton.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor and the Law, 1895-1950 explores the manner in which African Americans countered racialized impediments, attacking their legal underpinnings during the first half of the twentieth century. Specifically, Undoing Plessy explores the professional life of Charles Hamilton Houston, and the way it informs our understanding of change in the pre-Brown era. Houston dedicated his life to the emancipation of oppressed people, and was inspired early-on...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART THREE; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 23, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5929-X

OCLC:

877772004