Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality /
Describes the race relations in America leading up to the Supreme Court case of Brown volume Board of Education, the process by which Brown worked its way up to the Court, and how a decision was reached by the Court.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
[1977]
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| Edition: | First Vintage Books Edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Under color of law. Together let us sweetly live ; Original sin ; The special favorite of the laws ; Not like bales of hay ; Coming of age in nigger heaven ; Exhibit A ; The raw deal ; Uncle Fearless's nephew ; Stalking the law of the jungle ; One of the gang ; A foot in the door ; The spurs of Texas are upon you
- The courts below. On the natural inferiority of bootblacks ; The doll man and other experts ; Charleston detour ; Prairie fire ; The Menninger connection ; Jim Crow, Incorporated ; "Stick with us" ; The pride of Virginia ; The best place to attack
- On appeal. Going for the jugular ; At loggerheads ; The six-month summer ; Arrival of the superchief ; Simple justice ; Visible man: an epilogue twenty years after.