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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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Autor principal: Tushnet, Mark, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Setting the course: the grant from the Garland Fund
  • The legal background: from Margold to Houston
  • The influence of the staff
  • Thurgood Marshall and the Maryland connection
  • Securing the precedents: Gaines and Alston
  • The campaign in the 1940s: contingencies, adaptations, and the problem of staff
  • The strategy of delay and the direct attack on segregation
  • Conclusion: some lessons from the campaign.