Brown v. Board of Education
Subtitle: a brief history with documents
By: edited with an introduction by Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Contributors: Martin, Waldo E., 1951-
Series: The Bedford series in history and culture
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Brown, Oliver, 1918- -- Trials, litigation, etc; Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc; Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
Other titles: Brown versus Board of Education
Description: The effects of desegregation and the legacy of the civil rights movement continue to influence American race relations more than thirty years after Brown v. Board of Education, arguably the most significant legal decision of the twentieth century. This brief volume reprints documents from and about the Brown case along with a number of relevant works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and the NAACP to illustrate the myriad responses - then and now - to the African American struggle for equality.

A general introduction analyzes the case's legal precedents and situates the case in the historical context of Jim Crow discrimination and the burgeoning development of the NAACP. Photographs, a collection of political cartoons, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, and an index are also included.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Shades of Brown: Black freedom, white supremacy, and the law; title: Roberts v. City of Boston (1849); title: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); title: Sweatt v. Painter (1950) and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950); title: Brown v. Board of Education (1952-55); title: Popular response to Brown.