Ebook: From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

Plessy era -- Progressive era -- Interwar period -- World War II era, context and cases -- World War II era, consequences -- School desegregation.;[The author of this book offers an] account of constitutional law concerning race - from the late nineteen century through the 1960s - both as legal interpretation and as social and political history. While the book deals with a wide range of racially charged issues - criminal procedure, peonage, transportation, residential segregation, and voting rights - its focuses with especially keen insights on the Brown v. Board of Education case of 1954.-Dust jacket.