Justice deferred race and the Supreme Court
"In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a historian and a civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. Discussing nearly 200 cases in historical context, the authors show the Court can still help fulfill the...
Main Authors: | Burton, Orville Vernon (Author), Derfner, Armand (Author) |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the road to civil war
- A new birth of freedom
- The Supreme Court in reconstruction
- The Supreme Court and the Jim Crow counterrevolution
- Beginning the long, slow turnaround
- Breaking new ground
- The end of separate but equal
- Opposing forces : massive resistance and the civil rights movement
- A new birth of freedom, again
- Change in the court
- The war of words: "purpose" and "effect"
- Affirmative action: color blind or color conscious
- The color of criminal justice.