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

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 lif...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andrews, Gordon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ESTABLISHING PLESSY: Conflict and progress in the nadir
  • Plessy and its aftermath
  • CONFRONTING PLESSY: Saving the world for democracy
  • Exporting race : World War One and segregation
  • UNDOING PLESSY: Incorporating rights : the nexus of race, labor, and the state
  • The political economy of Scottsboro
  • The pull of the NAACP and a second Scottsboro
  • Race, presidential power, and agency
  • Houston, the NAACP, and labor
  • The balance of power, 1940-1945
  • Without prejudice or bias.