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Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality / by Richard Kluger.
LIBRA KF4155 .K55 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kluger, Richard.
- 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:
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 823, xxiii pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- regular print
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1976.
- Summary:
- Details the historical and cultural roots of and the various litigations and court decisions leading to the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown decision and profiles the key figures involved.
- Contents:
- pt. 1: 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
- pt. 2: 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
- pt. 3: On appeal : Going for the jugular ; At loggerheads ; The six-month summer ; Arrival of the Superchief ; Simple justice ; Visible man: an epilogue twenty years after.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 791-795) and indexes.
- Lillian Smith Book Award, 1977
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1977
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (torn at front) retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has publisher business card attached to front flyleaf.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy is "Gift from Bob Gottlieb Dec. 75".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kluger, Richard. Simple justice.
- ISBN:
- 0394472896
- 9780394472898
- OCLC:
- 1602027
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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