From Jim Crow to Civil Rights : The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality.

By: Jarausch, Konrad HContributor(s): Klarman, Michael JMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (670 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195351675Subject(s): Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History | United States -- Race relations -- History | United States. -- Supreme CourtGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Jim Crow to Civil Rights : The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial EqualityDDC classification: 342.73 LOC classification: KF4757.K58 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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