Description
| Product ID: | 9780195310184 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | From Jim Crow to Civil Rights |
| Subtitle: | The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality |
| Authors: | Author: Michael J. Klarman |
| Page Count: | 672 |
| Subjects: | Civics and citizenship, Civil rights & citizenship, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal history, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Law & society, Legal history, Human rights & civil liberties law |
| Description: | A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court''s rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights offers an authoritative account of the causes and consequences of all of the Supreme Court''s race decisions from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown vs. Board of Education. Klarman spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices make their decisions, offering the richest and most thorough discussion to date of how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-03-20 |
