Freedom : A Photographic History of the African American Struggle

by Marable, Manning; Mullings, Leith

• ISBN13: 9780714842707
• ISBN10: 0714842702
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-10
• Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd

Summary

In the famous Brown v Board of Education of Topeka case of 1954, the Unitedtates Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools violated the equalrotection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of theonstitution. This decision marked a critical turning point in the Americanudicial system, which, since the Jim Crow Laws of the 1880s, had previouslypheld the practice of segregation. The outcome of the Supreme Court casencouraged a growing challenge to segregation on all levels, thus creating aomentum that would, within a decade, lead to the Civil Rights and Votingcts that definitively guaranteed African Americans equal protection underhe law.;The Civil Rights Movement itself, from 1954 to 1968, marked alimactic era in the struggle for political equal rights for Africanmericans. After World War II, the economic boom and America's advocacy ofndividual self-determination on the international scene made segregation inhe United States more obsolete and even more unjustifiable. Through aombination of charismatic leadership and grass-root support, the period saw