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From the grassroots to the Supreme Court : Brown v. Board of Education and American democracy / Peter F. Lau, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Constitutional conflicts.
- Constitutional conflicts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961--Trials, litigation, etc--History.
- Brown, Oliver.
- Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc--History.
- Topeka (Kan.).
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.
- Segregation in education.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Combines legal and historical analysis to address the implications of Brown v. Board of Education , showing that the resolution of racial segregation in schools transformed the lives of ordinary citizens in broader ways than has previously been ass
- Contents:
- Plessy and the early challenges to the doctrine of 'separate, but equal' / Blair L.M. Kelley
- Tapestries of resistance: episodes of school segregation and desegregation in the western United States / Vicki L. Ruiz
- Within the shadow of Jim Crow: black struggles for education and liberation in North Carolina / Raymond Gavins
- 'Liberating lifescripts': Prince Edward County, South Carolina, Brown, and the struggle for democracy and equality in America / Peter F. Lau
- A civil rights vanguard: black attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia / Larissa M. Smith
- Prelude to Brown: education and the struggle for racial justice during the NAACP's formative decades, 1909-1934 / Patricia Sullivan
- J. Waties Waring and the making of liberal jurisprudence in postwar America / Christopher W. Schmidt
- Brown v. Board of Education: law or politics? / Michael J. Klarman
- The impact of lawyer-client disengagement on the NAACP's campaign to implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta / Tomiko Brown-Nagin
- 'The new negro ain't scared no more!': black women's activism in North Carolina and the meaning of Brown / Christina Greene
- The rural-urban matrix in the 1950s South: rethinking racial justice struggles in Memphis / Laurie B. Greene
- New York, Puerto Ricans, and the dilemmas of integration / Madeleine E. Lopez
- 'Stretching out': living and remembering Brown, 1945-1970 / Waldo E. Martin Jr.
- The Supreme Court's two principles of equality: from Brown to 2003 / Mark V. Tushnet
- Brown v. Board of Education and its impact on black education in America / Davison M. Douglas
- Brown and historical memory / Peter F. Lau.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-390) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8610-0
- OCLC:
- 850219426
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