03271nam 2200673 a 450 991045796840332120200520144314.01-280-47196-497866104719660-19-972595-01-60256-345-4(CKB)1000000000363168(EBL)271115(OCoLC)815380877(SSID)ssj0000115299(PQKBManifestationID)11879015(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115299(PQKBWorkID)10005038(PQKB)11162601(MiAaPQ)EBC4705368(MiAaPQ)EBC271115(MiAaPQ)EBC5220792(Au-PeEL)EBL271115(CaPaEBR)ebr10142489(EXLCZ)99100000000036316820010604d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBrown v. Board of Education[electronic resource] a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy /James T. PattersonOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20011 online resource (318 p.)Pivotal moments in American historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-515632-3 0-19-512716-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-268) and index.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;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,Pivotal moments in American history.Discrimination in educationLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistorySegregation in educationLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsElectronic books.Discrimination in educationLaw and legislationHistory.Segregation in educationLaw and legislationHistory.African AmericansCivil rights.344.73079809045973.7/1Patterson James T216154MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457968403321Brown v. Board of Education2219768UNINA