Author: United States. Dept. of the Interior. Division of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893
Author: United States. Dept. of the Interior. Division of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
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Brown v. Board of Education
Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199880840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. 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 launched the 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, moving narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954?
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199880840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. 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 launched the 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, moving narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954?
Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732648621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732648621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Annual Report of the Director, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, to the Secretary of Commerce
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States
Author: Adelaide Rosalia Hasse
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service
Author: United States. Life-Saving Service
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Tables of and Annotated Index to the Congressional Series of United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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