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200 10$aBrown v. Board of Education$b[electronic resource] $ea civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy /$fJames T. Patterson
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2001
215   $a1 online resource (318 p.)
225 1 $aPivotal moments in American history
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-268) and index.
327   $aContents; 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;
330   $aMany 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,
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