Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision - Softcover

Irons, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142003751 ISBN 13: 9780142003756

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2004

Synopsis

Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermath

In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools, and gripping courtroom drama scenes, Irons shows how the erosion of the Brown decision--especially by the Court's rulings over the past three decades--has led to the "resegregation" of public education in America.

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"An engaging, panoramic history of school desegregation, including the exhilarating breakthroughs and the heartbreaking setbacks."

"[Irons] takes his readers easily through the relevant court decisions and brings to life the lawyers who argued them. . . . His villains are not so much people... but the very manifestations of Jim Crow itself." ("Los Angeles Times") "An engaging, panoramic history of school desegregation, including the exhilarating breakthroughs and the heartbreaking setbacks."("The Washington Post")

a[Irons] takes his readers easily through the relevant court decisions and brings to life the lawyers who argued them. . . . His villains are not so much people... but the very manifestations of Jim Crow itself.a ("Los Angeles Times") aAn engaging, panoramic history of school desegregation, including the exhilarating breakthroughs and the heartbreaking setbacks.a("The Washington Post")

[Irons] takes his readers easily through the relevant court decisions and brings to life the lawyers who argued them. . . . His villains are not so much people... but the very manifestations of Jim Crow itself. ("Los Angeles Times") An engaging, panoramic history of school desegregation, including the exhilarating breakthroughs and the heartbreaking setbacks. ("The Washington Post")

?[Irons] takes his readers easily through the relevant court decisions and brings to life the lawyers who argued them. . . . His villains are not so much people... but the very manifestations of Jim Crow itself.? ("Los Angeles Times") An engaging, panoramic history of school desegregation, including the exhilarating breakthroughs and the heartbreaking setbacks.?("The Washington Post")

About the Author:

Peter Irons is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of five previous award-winning books. The most recent, A People's History of the Supreme Court, was awarded the Silver Gavel Certificate of Merit by the American Bar Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0142003751
• ISBN 13: 9780142003756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402