Title: The Brown decision, Jim Crow, and Southern identity
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Ethnic identity, Trials, litigation, Race identity, Segregation in education, Civil rights, Law and legislation, Race relations, Race discrimination, Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education, Segregation, African Americans, Topeka (Kan.)., History, Topeka (kan.), Segregation in education, law and legislation, African americans, segregation, African americans, civil rights, African americans, race identity, Africans, ethnic identity, Southern states, race relations, Education, united states
Places: Southern States, United States
People: Oliver Brown (1918-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: KF4155 .C63 2005