Brown v. Board of Education : a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy / / James T. Patterson

• Autore: Patterson James T.
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 344.73079809045; 973.7/1
• Soggetto topico: Discrimination in education - Law and legislation - United States - History; Segregation in education - Law and legislation - United States - History; African Americans - Civil rights
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2001.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Here, in a concise narrative, historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case of Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racila segregation in America's public schools. and its 50-year aftermath.
• Altri titoli varianti: Brown versus Board of Education
• Titolo autorizzato: Brown v. Board of Education
• ISBN: 0-19-771190-1; 0-19-988084-0; 1-280-47196-4; 9786610471966; 0-19-972595-0; 1-60256-345-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822716003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pivotal moments in American history.; Oxford scholarship online.