Justice deferred : race and the Supreme Court /

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...

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Main Authors: Burton, Orville Vernon (Author), Derfner, Armand (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court > History
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States
Civil rights > United States
African Americans > Civil rights > History
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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

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