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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783271003321

Autore

Klarman Michael J

Titolo

From Jim Crow to civil rights [[electronic resource] ] : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality / / Michael J. Klarman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-771916-3

0-19-988092-1

0-19-531018-7

1-280-56001-0

0-19-535167-3

0-19-530212-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (670 p.)

Disciplina

342.73/0873

Soggetti

Segregation - Law and legislation - United States - History

United States Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-626) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Plessy era -- The progressive era -- The interwar period -- World War II era : context and cases -- World War II era : consequences -- School desegregation -- Brown and the civil rights movement.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the social and political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions involving race relations from Plessy, the Progressive Era, and the Interwar period to World Wars I and II, Brown and the Civil Rights Movement. It explores the variety of consequences that Brown may have had, and more.