Jim Crow's Children - Hardcover

Irons, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670889180 ISBN 13: 9780670889181

Publisher: Viking, 2002

Synopsis

An award-winning legal historian and author of A People's History of the Supreme Court explores the long legacy of segregation in America, showing readers how the famous Brown decision broke the back of Jim Crow but was quickly replaced by another form of segregation. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

"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: Viking
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0670889180
• ISBN 13: 9780670889181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400