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We face the dawn : Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the legal team that dismantled Jim Crow /
The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping sto...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Gloucester County, 1948
- Origins, 1907-1939. A world split by law and custom
- A first-class law school
- A gamble on Roanoke
- "The best student I ever taught"
- Incubation, 1939-1950. Breakthrough in Norfolk
- Storm clouds near and far
- Robinson at the helm
- Rising expectations
- "A man among men"
- Farewell to separate but equal
- Crucible, 1950-1963. Child crusade in Prince Edward County
- Segregation on trial
- Face-off at the Supreme Court
- Rocky road to a new day
- A fight to survive
- New directions
- Epilogue : 2016.