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Subject(s)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—History [Browse]
• Segregation in education—Law and legislation—United States—History [Browse]

Summary note

The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and the political and legal skills of staff members such as Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Thurgood Marshall were responsible for the ultimate success of public interest law. This edition contains a new epilogue by th

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Setting the Course: The Grant from the Garland Fund; 2 The Legal Background: From Margold to Houston; 3 The Influence of the Staff; 4 Thurgood Marshall and the Maryland Connection; 5 Securing the Precedents: Gaines and Alston; 6 The Campaign in the 1940s: Contingencies, Adaptations, and the Problem of Staff; 7 The Strategy of Delay and the Direct Attack on Segregation; 8 Conclusion: Some Lessons from the Campaign; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

ISBN

• 979-88-9313-218-2
• 1-4696-1975-X
• 0-8078-8295-X

OCLC

796384070

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