LEADER 03357nam 2200661 450 001 9910797672903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908503-6-2 010 $a1-4696-2546-6 010 $a1-4696-2547-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000478833 035 $a(EBL)4322266 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001552407 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16171955 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001552407 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13435717 035 $a(PQKB)11260687 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001377740 035 $a(OCoLC)921988660 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4322266 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149958 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929588 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322266 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000478833 100 $a20160209h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnjust deeds $ethe restrictive covenant cases and the making of the civil rights movement /$fJeffrey D. Gonda 210 1$aChapel Hill, [North Carolina] :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 1 $aJustice, Power, and Politics 300 $aBased on author's thesis (doctoral -Yale University, 2012) issued under title: Home front. 311 $a1-4696-2545-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCovenants: 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. 330 8 $a'Unjust Deeds' explores the history of an often overlooked civil rights milestone: the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). In a group of cases from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., six African American families challenged the hardening boundaries of the nation's racial ghettos as they fought desperately to hold onto their homes. Aided by the NAACP and local civil rights attorneys, they attacked the legal legitimacy of racial restrictive covenants, one of the most pervasive instruments of residential segregation in the 1940s. Their campaign culminated in a unanimous Supreme Court victory that left the struggle for justice under the law forever transformed. 'Unjust Deeds' explores the origins and complex legacies of the covenant cases and reveals how the campaign against housing discrimination helped to reshape the post-war nation. 410 0$aJustice, power, and politics. 606 $aDiscrimination in housing$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$vCases 606 $aReal covenants$zUnited States$vCases 606 $aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc$vCases 610 $aShelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948) 615 0$aDiscrimination in housing$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aReal covenants 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc. 676 $a344.730636351 700 $aGonda$b Jeffrey D.$01481592 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797672903321 996 $aUnjust deeds$93698630 997 $aUNINA