The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown (Suny African American Studies)

John R. Howard

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Publication Date: December 7th, 1998

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

ISBN:

9780791440902

Pages:

393

Description

Examines the significant role played by the U.S. Supreme Court in shaping race relations and affecting civil rights in the period between the end of the Civil War and the 1954 Brown decision.

About the Author

John R. Howard is Distinguished Service Professor in the Division of Social Sciences at the State University of New York at Purchase, and is a practicing attorney. He is the author of The Cutting Edge: Social Movements and Social Change in America; coauthor of Life Styles in the Black Ghetto; and coeditor of Urban Black Politics.

The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown (Suny African American Studies)

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About the Author

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