Brown v. Board of Education : a brief history with documents / edited, with an introduction, by Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
The effects of desegregation and the legacy of the civil rights movement continue to influence American race relations more than thirty years after Brown v. Board of Education, arguably the most significant legal decision of the twentieth century. This brief volume reprints documents from and about...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Bedford/St. Martin's,
[1998]
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| Series: | Bedford series in history and culture.
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| Summary: | The effects of desegregation and the legacy of the civil rights movement continue to influence American race relations more than thirty years after Brown v. Board of Education, arguably the most significant legal decision of the twentieth century. This brief volume reprints documents from and about the Brown case along with a number of relevant works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and the NAACP to illustrate the myriad responses - then and now - to the African American struggle for equality. A general introduction analyzes the case's legal precedents and situates the case in the historical context of Jim Crow discrimination and the burgeoning development of the NAACP. Photographs, a collection of political cartoons, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, and an index are also included. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0312128118 0312111525 9780312128111 9780312111526 |