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The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 /

"The NAACP's fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tushnet, Mark, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The NAACP's fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and political and legal skills of staff members such as Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Thurgood Marshall were responsible for the ultimate success of public interest law. This edition contains a new epilogue by the author that addresses general questions of litigation strategy, the contested question of whether the Brown decision mattered, and the legacy of Brown through the Burger and Rehnquist courts."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781469619750