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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822716003321

Autore

Patterson James T.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

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

Oxford scholarship online

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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

Here, in a concise narrative, historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case of Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racila segregation in America's public schools. and its 50-year aftermath.