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Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

By Peter Irons

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2004
ISBN
9780142003756
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
356 kB (364991 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-12 12:58:32
History; Politics; Sociology; Nonfiction; HIS05600

Description

Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermath In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools, and gripping courtroom drama scenes, Irons shows how the erosion of the Brown decision—especially by the Court’s rulings over the past three decades—has led to the “resegregation” of public education in America.

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