Format:
1 online resource (670 pages)
ISBN:
9780195351675
Content:
A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights offers an authoritative account of the causes and consequences of all of the Supreme Court's race decisions from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown vs. Board of Education. Klarman spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices make their decisions, offering the richest and most thorough discussion to date of how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: The Plessy Era -- TWO: The Progressive Era -- THREE: The Interwar Period -- FOUR: World War II Era: Context and Cases -- FIVE: World War II Era: Consequences -- SIX: School Desegregation -- SEVEN: Brown and the Civil Rights Movement -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195129038
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195129038
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=271516
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