Brown v. Board of Education [[electronic resource] ] : a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy / / James T. Patterson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784673703321
• Autore: Patterson James T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-19-771190-1; 0-19-988084-0; 1-280-47196-4; 9786610471966; 0-19-972595-0; 1-60256-345-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Collana: Pivotal moments in American history
• Disciplina: 344.73079809045; 973.7/1
• Soggetti: Discrimination in education - Law and legislation - United States - History; Segregation in education - Law and legislation - United States - History; African Americans - Civil rights; Confederate States of America Politics and government; Confederate States of America Social conditions; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects
• 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. 263-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors' Note; 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 the 1960's; 7 The Burger Court Surprises; 8 Stalemates; 9 Resegregation?; 10 Legacies and Lessons; Appendix I: Key Cases; Appendix II: Tables and Figures; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Acknowledgments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 racial 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,