The NAACP's legal strategy against segregated education, 1925-1950
By: Mark V. Tushnet.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780807855959
Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Histoire.; Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.; Segregatie.; Negers.; Ségrégation en éducation -- Droit -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the course: the grant from the Garland Fund; title: The legal background: from Margold to Houston; title: The influence of the staff; title: Thurgood Marshall and the Maryland connection; title: Securing the precedents: Gaines and Alston; title: The campaign in the 1940s: contingencies, adaptations, and the problem of staff; title: The strategy of delay and the direct attack on segregation; title: Conclusion: some lessons from the campaign.