Before Brown

Author : Gary M. Lavergne
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292722001
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Brown written by Gary M. Lavergne and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 26, 1946, an African American from Houston applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law. Although he met all of the academic qualifications, Heman Marion Sweatt was denied admission because he was black. He challenged the university's decision in court, and the resulting case, Sweatt v. Painter, went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Sweatt's favor. The Sweatt case paved the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka rulings that finally opened the doors to higher education for all African Americans and desegregated public education. This book tells the story of Sweatt's struggle for justice and how it became a milestone for the civil rights movement. It reveals that Sweatt was a central player in a master plan conceived by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for ending racial segregation. The NAACP used the Sweatt case to practically invalidate the "separate but equal" doctrine that had undergirded segregated education for decades. The book also shows how this case advanced the career of Thurgood Marshall, whose advocacy of Sweatt taught him lessons that he used to win the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and ultimately led to his becoming the first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Author : Glenn Feldman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817351345
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Brown written by Glenn Feldman and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier, spurred by the Great Depression and, later, World War II—events that would radically shape the course of politics in the South and the nation into the next century. This work explores the growth of the movement through its various manifestations—the activities of politicians, civil rights leaders, religious figures, labor unionists, and grass-roots activists—throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It discusses the critical leadership roles played by women and offers a new perspective on the relationship between the NAACP and the Communist Party. Before Brown shows clearly that, as the drive toward racial equality advanced and national political attitudes shifted, the validity of white supremacy came increasingly into question. Institutionalized racism in the South had always offered white citizens material advantages by preserving their economic superiority and making them feel part of a privileged class. When these rewards were threatened by the civil rights movement, a white backlash occurred.

Author : Jean Van Delinder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317251318
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Struggles Before Brown written by Jean Van Delinder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were many little-known challenges to racial segregation before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The author's oral history interviews highlight civil rights protests seldom considered significant, but that help us understand the beginnings of the civil rights struggle before it became a mass movement. She brings to light many important but largely forgotten events, such as the often overlooked 1950s Oklahoma sit-in protests that provided a model for the better-known Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. This book's significance lies in its challenge to perspectives that dominate scholarship on the civil rights movement. The broader concepts illustrated-including agency, culture, social structure, and situations-throughout this book open up substantially more of the complexity of the civil rights struggle. This book employs a methodology for analyzing not just the civil rights movement but other social movements and, indeed, social change in general.

Author : Marisela Martinez-Cola
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820362042
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bricks before Brown written by Marisela Martinez-Cola and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation are unconstitutional, declaring “separate is inherently unequal.” Known as a seminal Supreme Court case and civil rights victory, Brown v. Board of Education resulted from many legal battles that predicated its existence. Marisela Martinez-Cola writes about the many important cases that led to the culmination of Brown. She reveals that the road to Brown is lined with “bricks” representing at least one hundred other families who legally challenged segregated schooling in state and federal courts across the country, eleven of which involved Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican American plaintiffs. By revealing the significance of Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican American segregation cases, Martinez-Cola provides an opportunity for an increasingly diverse America to be fully invested in the complete grand narrative of the civil rights movement. To illustrate the evolution of these cases, she focuses on three court cases from California, including these stories as part of the “long civil rights movement,” and thus expands our understanding of the scope of that movement along racial, gender, and class lines. Comparing and discussing the meaning of the other court cases that led to the Brown decision strengthens the standing of Brown while revealing all the twists and turns inherent in the struggle for equality.

Author : Robert Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718897390
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Tom Brown written by Robert Kirkpatrick and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre's continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children's literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown's Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role of the school story in the broader development of the novel as the genre became established through the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded with a whole new perspective on the history of children's literature.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nomination of Brown and Jones, Hearing Before ... , 93-2, June 3, 1974 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown Bear of Alaska, Hearing Before ... , 72-1, on the Protection and Preservation of the Brown and Grizzly Bears of Alaska, January 18, 1932 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Horace MANN (Secretary to the Board of Education of the State of Massachusetts.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Oration delivered at Providence ... before the United Brother's Society of Brown University written by Horace MANN (Secretary to the Board of Education of the State of Massachusetts.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Entomological Society of London (1833-1933)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
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Download or read book The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London written by Entomological Society of London (1833-1933) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mayo Clinic
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
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Download or read book Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota written by Mayo Clinic and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: