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Authors: Peter F. Lau (Editor), Neal Devins (Editor), Mark A. Graber (Editor), Blair L.M. Kelley (Contribution by), Vicki L. Ruiz
ISBN-13: 9780822334491, ISBN-10: 0822334496
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Peter F. Lau

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.

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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

	Plessy and early challenges in the doctrine of "separate, but equal"	19
	Tapestries of resistance : episodes of school segregation and desegregation in the western United States	44
	Within the shadow of Jim Crow : black struggles for education and liberation in North Carolina	68
	"Liberating lifescripts" : Prince Edward County, Virginia, and the roots of Brown v. Board of Education	88
	From the periphery to the center : Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the struggle for democracy and equality in America	105
	A civil rights vanguard : black attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia	129
	Prelude to Brown : education and the struggle for racial justice during the NAACP's formative decades, 1909-1934	154
	J. Waties Waring and the making of liberal jurisprudence in postwar America	173
	Brown v. Board of Education : law or politics?	198
	The impact of lawyer-client disengagement on the NAACP's campaign to implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta	227
	"The new Negro ain't sacred no more!" : black women's activism in North Carolina and the meaning of Brown	245
	The rural-urban matrix in the 1950s south : rethinking racial justice struggles in memphis	270
	New York, Puerto Ricans, and the dilemmas of integration	300
	"Stretching out" : living and remembering Brown, 1945-1970	321
	The Supreme Court's two principles of equality : from Brown to 2003	340
	Brown v. Board of Education and its impact on black education in America	361
	Conclusion : Brown and historical memory	383

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From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy » (New Edition)

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