Brown v. Board of Education : a Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.
Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launchedthe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Pivotal moments in American history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Race and the schools before Brown
- The grass roots and struggling lawyers
- The Court decides
- Crossroads, 1954-55
- Southern whites fight back
- Striving for racial balance in the 1960s
- The Burger Court surprises
- Stalemates
- Resegregation?
- Legacies and lessons
- Appendices.