Brown v. Board of Education

By James T. Patterson, William W. Freehling

Subjects: Rassendiskriminierung, Discrimination en éducation, Law and legislation, Statut juridique, Politics and government, Trials, litigation, Droit, Unionists (United States Civil War), African americans, Whites, Topeka (Kansas), Confederate States of America -- Politics and government, African Americans, Procès, Droits, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects, Nonfiction, Schule, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, Southern unionists, Procès, instances, Topeka (Kan.)., Amerikaanse burgeroorlog, Afro-Americans, HISTORY, Histoire, Topeka (Kansas). Board of Education, Segregation in education, États-Unis. Supreme Court, Political activity, USA, Unionisme, United states, army, Ségrégation en éducation, Armed Forces, Juridische aspecten, Dissidenten, United States, Rechtsprechung, Discrimination in education, États-Unis, Confederate States of America -- Social conditions, Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education, Deutschland Grenzschutzkommando Mitte Schule, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, Rassentrennung, Supreme Court (VS), Desegregatie, Bildung, African Americans -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century, Educational law and legislation, united states, Negers, Social conditions, United States. Army, USA Supreme Court, Confederate states of america, Social aspects, Slaves, Civil rights, History, Scholen, United States. Army -- Southern unionists, Noirs américains, Slaves -- Southern States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century, Whites -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century, Deutschland

Description: Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launchedthe litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!" Here, in a concise, compelling narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath...