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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford...
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Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"The Heart of Atlanta Supreme Court decision stands among the court's most significant civil rights rulings. In Atlanta, Georgia, two arch segregationists vowed to flout the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the sweeping slate of civil rights reforms just signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Pickrick restaurant was run by Lester Maddox, soon to be governor of Georgia. The other, the Heart of Atlanta motel, was operated by lawyer Moreton Rolleston...
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"In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry--that the black...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Introduction to Racial Equity -- Track 1. The Trump Card -- Track 2: This Is America -- Track 3: The "Negro Invasion" -- Track 4: Ongoing Historical Trauma -- Track 5: Black Neighborhood Destruction -- Track 6: Make Black Neighborhoods Matter -- Track 7: Healing the Black Butterfly -- Track 8: Outro: Organize!
"This book discusses the long history of the deleterious effects of racial segregation on health in the United States. Author Brown puts Baltimore...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In Before Lawrence, Wesley Phelps recounts the legal challenges to discriminatory Texas sodomy laws before the major breakthrough in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas. While most scholars and activists recognize the Lawrence decision to be the foundation for all subsequent gains for gay and lesbian equality in the twenty-first century, Phelps argues that the earlier legal challenges laid the necessary groundwork for the...
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