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Brown v. Board of Education

by Mark V. Tushnet
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The story behind the 1954 Supreme Court decision that undid the constitutionality of legal segregation. It covers the development of the NAACP legal strategy the legal team headed by Thurgood Marshall, the political and legal concerns of the high court justices, and the implementation of the ruling.

Describes the people playing major roles in the battle for desegregation, the smaller court cases that led up to Brown v. The Board of Education, and the results and repercussions of the case.

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Book Details

Published
October 1, 1995
Publisher
New York : Franklin Watts, c1995.
Pages
144
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780531112304

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