Unjust Deeds : The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement /

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In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial res...

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Autor principal: Gonda, Jeffrey D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shelley, J. D.
Kraemer, Louis.
Shelley, J. D. > Trials, litigation, etc.
Kraemer, Louis > Trials, litigation, etc.
Real covenants.
Discrimination in housing > Law and legislation.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Covenants reels > États-Unis > Jurisprudence.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > Cases.
Real covenants > United States > Cases.
Discrimination in housing > Law and legislation > United States > Cases.
United States.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Covenants: race and housing in the 1940s
  • Courtrooms : local lawyers and legal activism
  • The NAACP : national leadership and housing desegregation
  • To Washington : the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court
  • Failures and foundations: the covenant cases and postwar black freedom struggles.

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