The Brown decision, Jim Crow, and Southern identity
By: James C. Cobb.
Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures ;; no. 48; Lamar memorial lectures ;; no. 48.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780820324982
Subjects: Brown, Oliver, 1918- -- Trials, litigation, etc; Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc; Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States; Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States; African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Race identity; African Americans -- Ethnic identity; Southern States -- Race relations
Description: "The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent fiftieth anniversary of Brown prompted a surge of tributes: books, television and radio specials, conferences, and speeches. At the same time, says James C. Cobb, it revealed a growing trend of dismissiveness and negativity toward Brown and other accomplishments of the civil rights movement. Writing as both a lauded historian and a white southerner from the last generation to grow up under southern apartheid, Cobb responds to what he sees as distortions of Brown's legacy and their implied disservice to those whom it inspired and empowered."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-87) and index.