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What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said : the Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision.
Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the most famous case in American constitutional law. Criticized and even openly defied when first handed down, in half a century Brown has become a ven...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2001.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the most famous case in American constitutional law. Criticized and even openly defied when first handed down, in half a century Brown has become a venerated symbol of equality and civil rights. Its meaning, however, remains as contested as the case is celebrated. In the decades since the original decision, constitutional interpreters of all stripes have found within it different meanings. Both supporters and opponents of affirmative action have claimed th. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814723043 0814723047 |