Simple Justice : The History of Brown vs Board of Education and Black America's Struggle For Equality

by Kluger, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780375414770
• ISBN10: 0375414770
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Knopf

Summary

The Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation and culminated a century long social and legal struggle to establish black equality in the U.S. 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.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

Table of Contents

Author's note
Foreword
Under color of law
Together let us sweetly live	p. 3
Original sin	p. 26
The special favorite of the laws	p. 50
Not like bales of hay	p. 84
Coming of age in Nigger heaven	p. 105
Exhibit A	p. 126
The raw deal	p. 155
Uncle fearless's nephew	p. 173
Stalking the law of the jungle	p. 194
One of the gang	p. 213
A foot in the door	p. 238
The spurs of Texas are upon you	p. 255
The courts below
On the natural inferiority of bootblacks	p. 287
The doll man and other experts	p. 315
Charleston detour	p. 346
Prairie fire	p. 368
The menninger connection	p. 397
Jim Crow, Inc.	p. 426
"Stick with us"	p. 452
The pride of Virginia	p. 481
The best place to attack	p. 510
On appeal
Going for the jugular	p. 545
At loggerheads	p. 585
The six-month summer	p. 620
Arrival of the superchief	p. 660
Simple justice	p. 703
Visible man : fifty years after Brown	p. 751
Text of the decisions	p. 790
Sources and acknowledgments	p. 799
Selected bibliography	p. 802
Interviews and correspondence	p. 808
Notes	p. 815
Indexes	p. 839
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