From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

by Michael J. Klarman
ISBN-10:
0195310187
ISBN-13:
9780195310184
Pub. Date:
05/04/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195310187
ISBN-13:
9780195310184
Pub. Date:
05/04/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

by Michael J. Klarman
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Overview

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative interpretation of the decision's connection to the civil rights movement, Klarman argues that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to racial change than for encouraging direct-action protest. Brown unquestioningly had a significant impact—it brought race issues to public attention and it mobilized supporters of the ruling. It also, however, energized the opposition. In this authoritative account of constitutional law concerning race, Michael Klarman details, in the richest and most thorough discussion to date, how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195310184
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/04/2006
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 672
Sales rank: 957,591
Product dimensions: 9.22(w) x 6.17(h) x 1.38(d)
Lexile: 1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

Michael J. Klarman is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Klarman clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg and then earned his D. Phil. from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his spouse, Lisa Landsverk, and their four children.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The Plessy Era2. The Progressive Era3. The Interwar Period4. World War II Era: Context and Cases5. World War II Era: Consequences6. School Desegregation7. Brown and the Civil Rights MovementConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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