New information about the inner workings of the court and the politics surrounding the Brown vs. Board of Education case is offered in a study of the life of Philip Elman, the Justice Department attorney on the Brown vs. Board of Education case.
individualism that has characterized Thomas's judicial philosophy. Worse was yet to come. Chief Justice Warren considered the most important decision of his tenure to be not Brown but Reynolds v. Sims,25 a case that enshrined the ...
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With All Deliberate Speed: Segregation-desegregation in Southern Schools
A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who ...
"Ingenious. . . . Lhamon's brief analysis of mid-fifties rock 'n' roll is one of the best in print."--"New England Quarterly." "The oxymoron 'deliberate speed' is a fitting title for this superb book about America in transition.
Rupert N. Richardson, Wallace, and Adrian Anderson, Texas: Lone ... Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992), 156-57; Barr, Black Texans, 84-85,136-37; Brophy, ...
Written with a deft hand, this story of social justice will remind readers, young and old, of the momentousness of the segregation hearings.
Archival photographs paired with fictional text depicting thoughts and emotions of students who lived through school desegregation capture the spirit, sadness, and struggle of the time.
"An effective blend of memoir, history and legal analysis."—Christopher Benson, Washington Post Book World In what John Hope Franklin calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal ...
John Allen Flynt, interview by author, New Hebron, MS. 7. ... Lewis Lord, “Like Watching Something Wonderful Die, Students Say of Total Integration Move,” Meridian Star (Meridian, MS), January 11, 1970. 15. Galen Drewry, “The Principal ...