Lau / Devins / Graber From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court

Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8610-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutional Conflicts

Combines legal and historical analysis to address the implications of Brown v. Board of Education, showing that the resolution of racial segregation in schools transformed the lives of ordinary citizens in broader ways than has previously been ass

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lau, Peter F.

Devins, Neal

Graber, Mark A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kelley, Blair L.M.

Ruiz, Vicki L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction / Peter F. Lau 1

Part I: Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots

Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of “Separate, but Equal” / Blair L. M. Kelley 19

Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States / Vicki L. Ruiz 44

Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina / Raymond Gavins 68

“Liberating Lifescripts”: Price Edward County, Virginia, and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education / Kara Miles Turner 88

From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America / Peter F. Lau 105

Part II: Advocates, Judges, and the Making of Brown

A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia / Larissa M. Smith 129

Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the NAACP’s Formative Decades, 1909-1934 / Patricia Sullivan 154

J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Postwar America / Christopher W. Schmidt 173

Brown v. Board of Education: Law of Politics? / Michael J. Klarman 198

Part III: Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots

The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the NAACP’s Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta / Tomiko Brown-Nagin 227

“The New Negro Ain’t Scared No More!”: Black Women’s Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown / Christina Greene 245

The Rural-Urban Matrix in the 1950s South: Rethinking Racial Struggles in Memphis / Laurie B. Green 270

New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration / Madeleine E. Lopez 300

Part IV: Life, Law, and Culture in Post-Brown America

“Stretching Out”: Living and Remembering Brown, 1945-1970 / Waldo E. Martin Jr. 321

The Supreme Court’s Two Principles of Equality, From Brown to 2003 / Mark V. Tushnet 340

Brown v. Board of Education and its Impact on Black Education in America / Davison M. Douglas 361

Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory / Peter F. Lau 383

Bibliography 387

Notes on the Contributors 391

Index 395

Über Autor(innen)

Peter F. Lau is an independent scholar who earned his doctorate in history from Rutgers University. He has taught at Rutgers and the University of Rhode Island. Currently he is teaching history at Lincoln School in Providence, Rhode Island.