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

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

Irons, Peter

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0142003751
ISBN13: 9780142003756
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 27 2004
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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