Simple Justice

by KLUGER, RICHARD

• ISBN13: 9781400030613
• ISBN10: 1400030617
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-04-13
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

Simple Justiceis the definitive history of the landmark caseBrown v. Board of Educationand the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation, Kluger has updated his work with a new final chapter covering events and issues that have arisen since the book was first published, including developments in civil rights and recent cases involving affirmative action, which rose directly out ofBrownv.Board of Education. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Biography

Richard Kluger, a Princeton graduate, worked as a journalist with <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>New York Post</i>, and the <i>New York Herald Tribune</i>, on which he was the last literary editor, before entering book publishing.  After serving as executive editor at Simon and Schuster and editor-in-chief at Atheneum, he turned to writing fiction and social history.  He is the author of six novels (and two others with his wife, Phyllis), two National Book Award finalists–<b>Simple Justice</b> and <b>The Paper </b>(a history of the Herald Tribune)–and a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the American cigarette business, <b>Ashes to Ashes</b>.  He and his wife now live in Berkeley, California.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ix
Foreword	xi
PART I UNDER COLOR OF LAW
1. Together Let Us Sweetly Live	3	(23)
2. Original Sin	26	(24)
3. The Special Favorite of the Laws	50	(34)
4. Not like Bales of Hay	84	(21)
5. Coming of Age in Nigger Heaven	105	(21)
6. Exhibit A	126	(29)
7. The Raw Deal	155	(18)
8. Uncle Fearless's Nephew	173	(21)
9. Stalking the Law of the Jungle	194	(19)
10. One of the Gang	213	(25)
11. A Foot in the Door	238	(17)
12. The Spurs of Texas Are upon You	255	(32)
PART II THE COURTS BELOW
13. On the Natural Inferiority of Bootblacks	287	(28)
14. The Doll Man and Other Experts	315	(31)
15. Charleston Detour	346	(22)
16. Prairie Fire	368	(29)
17. The Menninger Connection	397	(29)
18. Jim Crow, Inc.	426	(26)
19. "Stick with Us"	452	(29)
20. The Pride of Virginia	481	(29)
21. The Best Place to Attack	510	(35)
PART III ON APPEAL
22. Going for the Jugular	545	(40)
23. At Loggerheads	585	(35)
24. The Six-Month Summer	620	(40)
25. Arrival of the Superchief	660	(43)
26. Simple Justice	703	(48)
27. Visible Man: Fifty Years After Brown	751	(39)
Appendix: Text of the Decisions	790	(9)
Sources and Acknowledgments	799	(3)
Selected Bibliography	802	(6)
Interviews and Correspondence	808	(7)
Notes	815	(24)
Indexes
Principal Cases Cited	839	(3)
Subjects and Names	842