Brown v. Board of Education:
A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
Seiten
2002
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-515632-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-515632-4 (ISBN)
The first narrative history in 25 years of the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed school segregation in America and its aftermath.
Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racila segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "Another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!"
Here, in a concise, compelling narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shephered a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas.
Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racila segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "Another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!"
Here, in a concise, compelling narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shephered a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas.
James T. Patterson won the Bancroft Prize in History for Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (OUP, 1996). Author of numerous books concerning modern American life, he is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University.
Preface: Contesting the Color Line
1. Race and the Schools Before Brown
2. The Grass Roots and Struggling Lawyers
3. The Court Decides
4. Crossroads, 1954-55
5. Southern Whites Fight Back
6. Striving for Racial Balance in teh 1960s
7. The Burger Court Surprise
8. Stalemates
9. Resegregation?
10. Legacies and Lessons
Appendix I; Key Cases
Appendix II: Tables and Figures
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Acknowledgments
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.11.2002 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | numerous halftones, 1 map |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-515632-3 / 0195156323 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-515632-4 / 9780195156324 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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