Reconsidering Roosevelt on race
Subtitle: how the presidency paved the road to Brown
By: Kevin J. McMahon.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 -- Relations with African Americans; United States. Supreme Court -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century; Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects; United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: The day they drove old Dixie down; title: The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years; title: FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform; title: Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties; title: almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court; title: A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department; title: The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions; title: The road the court trod.