From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Klarman, a constitutional law professor, offers a highly accessible analysis of the interplay between the Supreme Court and U.S. race relations. While focusing on particular legal decisions, he looks at the broader context, the social, political, and international forces that have influenced the path of racial progress from the turn of the nineteenth century, when segregation was the law of the land, until it was outlawed by theBrowndecision. Klarman points to countervailing forces that impacted the ruling and might even have brought about the same end. Those forces included the civil rights movement, political power shifts of the black northern demographic, and competition for the hearts and minds of Third World nations during the cold war. Klarman reflects on litigation as a form of protest and education in the civil rights era but suggests that theBrowndecision may have been more detrimental than beneficial because it galvanized white opposition to desegregation.Vernon FordCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.