Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights movement
Subtitle: abridged edition of "From Jim Crow to civil rights : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality "
By: by Michael J. Klarman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780195307467; 9780195307634
Subjects: Brown, Oliver, -- 1918- -- Trials, litigation, etc; United States. -- Supreme Court; Topeka (Kan.). -- Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc; Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
Other titles: Brown versus Board of Education and the civil rights movement
Description: "[Author] has compressed his study of the Supreme Court's rulings on race into a tight foucs around one major case--Brown v. Board of Education. [author] goes behind the scenes to examine the justices' deliberations and recaps his famous backlash thesis, arguing that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to change than for encouraging civil rights protest and that it was the resulting violence that transformed northern opinion and led to the landmark legislation of the 1960s. [author] also sheds light on broader questions such as how racial attitudes change over time; how much judicial decisions depend on legal, political, and peronal considerations; and the realtionship between Supreme Court decisions and social change."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Jim Crow Era; title: World War II; title: Brown v. Board of Education; title: Brown II and subsequent desegregation developments; title: Brown's direct effects; title: Brown's indirect effects; title: Brown's backlash; title: Why massive resistance?; title: Brown, violence, and civil rights legislation.