Social Scientists for Social Justice
Subtitle: Making the Case against Segregation (Critical America Series)
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780814742662
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Multicultural studies; Topeka (Kan.); Race discrimination; Ethnic Sociology; Trials, litigation, etc; Political And Civil Rights; Social Science; Sociology; United States; USA; History; Discrimination & Racism; Legal History; Social History; Board of Education; Sociology - General; 1918-; 20th century; Brown, Oliver,; Discrimination in education; Law and legislation
First sentence: In 1951, when the attorneys of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-Legal Defense and Education Fund (NAACP-LDEF) began litigation to desegregate primary and secondary schools in the United States, they called on social scientists for help.