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Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality  Cover Image Book Book

Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality / Richard Kluger.

Kluger, Richard. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1400030617
  • ISBN: 9781400030613
  • Physical Description: xii, 865 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books : 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in slightly different form by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1976"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 802-807) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. Under color of law. Together let us sweetly live -- Original sin -- The special favorite of the laws -- Not like bales of hay -- Coming of age in nigger heaven -- Exhibit A -- The raw deal -- Uncle Fearless's nephew -- Stalking the law of the jungle -- One of the gang -- A foot in the door -- The spurs of Texas are upon you -- pt. 2. The courts below. On the natural inferiority of bootblacks -- The doll man and other experts -- Charleston detour -- Prairie fire -- The Menninger connection -- Jim Crow, Inc. -- "Stick with us" -- The pride of Virginia -- The best place to attack -- pt. 3. On appeal. Going for the jugular -- At loggerheads -- The six-month summer -- Arrival of the superchief -- Simple justice -- Visible man : fifty years after Brown -- Appendix : text of the decisions.
Subject: Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library KF 4155 .K58 2004 30775305483407 General Collection Available -


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