Brown V. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement

Name: Brown V. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9780195307634

ISBN-10: 0195307631

ISBN-13: 9780195307634

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael J. Klarman

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In this abridged, paperback edition of his much acclaimed, Bancroft Prize-winning From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his study of the Supreme Court's rulings on race into a tight focus around one major case--Brown v. Board of Education. Klarman goes behind the scenes to examine the justices' deliberations and recaps his famous backlash thesis, arguing that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to change than for encouraging civil rights protest and that it was the resulting violence that transformed northern opinion and led to the landmark legislation of the 1960s. Klarman also sheds light on broader questions such as how racial…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction



The Jim Crow Era



World War II



Brown v. Board of Education



Brown II and Subsequent Desegregation Developments



Brown's Direct Effects



Brown's Indirect Effects



Brown's Backlash



Why Massive Resistance?



Brown, Violence, and Civil Rights Legislation


Conclusion


Note on Sources


Notes


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Index