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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957003703321

Autore

Klarman Michael J

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9780197719169

0197719163

9780199880928

0199880921

9780195310184

0195310187

9781280560019

1280560010

9780195351675

0195351673

9780195302127

0195302125

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (670 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

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

Previously issued in print: 2004.

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

In 'From Jim Crow to Civil Rights', Michael J. Klarman examines the social and political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions involving race relations from Plessy, the Progressive Era and the inter-war period to World Wars I and II, Brown and the Civil Rights Movement.