03303nam 2200649 450 991046113720332120200520144314.01-4696-2546-61-4696-2547-4(CKB)3710000000478833(EBL)4322266(SSID)ssj0001552407(PQKBManifestationID)16171955(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001552407(PQKBWorkID)13435717(PQKB)11260687(StDuBDS)EDZ0001377740(MiAaPQ)EBC4322266(OCoLC)921988660(MdBmJHUP)muse46488(Au-PeEL)EBL4322266(CaPaEBR)ebr11149958(CaONFJC)MIL929588(EXLCZ)99371000000047883320160209h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnjust deeds the restrictive covenant cases and the making of the civil rights movement /Jeffrey D. GondaChapel Hill, [North Carolina] :The University of North Carolina Press,2015.©20151 online resource (312 p.)Justice, Power, and PoliticsBased on author's thesis (doctoral -Yale University, 2012) issued under title: Home front.1-4696-2545-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Covenants: race and housing in the 1940s -- Courtrooms : local lawyers and legal activism -- The NAACP : national leadership and housing desegregation -- To Washington : the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court -- Failures and foundations: the covenant cases and postwar black freedom struggles.'Unjust Deeds' explores the history of an often overlooked civil rights milestone: the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). In a group of cases from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., six African American families challenged the hardening boundaries of the nation's racial ghettos as they fought desperately to hold onto their homes. Aided by the NAACP and local civil rights attorneys, they attacked the legal legitimacy of racial restrictive covenants, one of the most pervasive instruments of residential segregation in the 1940s. Their campaign culminated in a unanimous Supreme Court victory that left the struggle for justice under the law forever transformed. 'Unjust Deeds' explores the origins and complex legacies of the covenant cases and reveals how the campaign against housing discrimination helped to reshape the post-war nation.Justice, power, and politics.Discrimination in housingLaw and legislationUnited StatesCasesReal covenantsUnited StatesCasesAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etcCasesElectronic books.Discrimination in housingLaw and legislationReal covenantsAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.344.730636351Gonda Jeffrey D.1027849MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461137203321Unjust deeds2443543UNINA