Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality

Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality / Richard Kluger.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kluger, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
Edition:1st Vintage Books ed.
Subjects:
Brown, Oliver, > 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Topeka (Kan.). > Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Honor with Books 2009
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Under color of law. Together let us sweetly live
  • Original sin
  • The special favorite of the laws
  • Not like bales of hay
  • Coming of age in nigger heaven
  • Exhibit A
  • The raw deal
  • Uncle Fearless's nephew
  • Stalking the law of the jungle
  • One of the gang
  • A foot in the door
  • The spurs of Texas are upon you
  • pt. 2. The courts below. On the natural inferiority of bootblacks
  • The doll man and other experts
  • Charleston detour
  • Prairie fire
  • The Menninger connection
  • Jim Crow, Inc.
  • "Stick with us"
  • The pride of Virginia
  • The best place to attack
  • pt. 3. On appeal. Going for the jugular
  • At loggerheads
  • The six-month summer
  • Arrival of the superchief
  • Simple justice
  • Visible man : fifty years after Brown
  • Appendix : text of the decisions.

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