Research Catalog

Title

The Brown v. Board of Education trial / Julia Garbus, editor.

Publication

Farmington Hills, Mich : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale/Cengage Learning, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Garbus, Julia

Description

193 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Using primary and secondary sources ... provides background information on the [Brown v. Board of Education trial] and presents the controversies surrounding the event, and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by the [it]"--

Series Statement

Perspectives on modern world history

Uniform Title

Perspectives on modern world history.

Alternative Title

• Brown vs. Board of Education trial
• Brown versus Board of Education trial

Subject

• Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc. > Juvenile literature
• Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc
• Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
• Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc. > Juvenile literature
• Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc
• Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education
• Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States > Juvenile literature
• African Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile literature
• Segregation in education
• African Americans > Civil rights
• JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
• JUVENILE NONFICTION / School & Education
• JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Segregation in education > Law and legislation
• Trials
• United States

Genre/Form

• Juvenile works
• Juvenile works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The road to the landmark "Brown" court rulings / West's Encyclopedia of American Law -- The US Supreme Court codifies "separate by equal" into law / Henry Billings Brown -- In two landmark rulings, the US Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional / Earl Warren -- Southern legislators vow to oppose desegregation / Members of the US Congress -- "Brown" ends the "shame of segregation" / Max Freedman -- Court order can't make the races mix / Zora Neale Hurston -- Despite disappointments, "Brown" improved African Americans' lives / David Garrow -- School segregaration and the achievement gap continue almost sixty years after "Brown" / Lawrence D. Bobo -- Black schools provided better educational opportunities before desegregation / Jonathan Tilove -- Forced school busing caused racial turmoil in Boston / Bridget Murphy -- The fight for racial balance in schools is still relevant / David L. Kirp -- Continuing racial imbalance in schools is not a problem / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom -- African Americans are not to blame for the failures of "Brown" / Michael Eric Dyson -- "Brown" has influenced human rights internationally / Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- School integration in Eastern Europe contrasts sharply with the US experience / Jack Greenberg -- School life for an African American boy before desegregation / William E. Cox -- The sister of a "Brown" plaintiff remembers student strikes for better school conditions / Joan Johns Cobb -- A lawyer representing Kansas recalls his Supreme Court argument / Paul E. Wilson -- An NAACP lawyer discusses "Brown" and its legacy / Jack Greenberg and Gilbert Holmes, interviewed by M. Dion Thompson -- Black educators in Topeka adjust to desegregation / Merrill Ross and Barbara Ann Ross -- Facing a mob, an African American teen helps integrate a high school / Minnijean Brown Trickey.

ISBN

• 9780737773071 (hbk.)
• 0737773073 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2014020505

OCLC

• 880929803
• SCSB-11110637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library