Reconsidering Roosevelt on race how the presidency paved the road to Brown /

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Autor Principal: McMahon, Kevin J.
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • The day they drove old Dixie down
  • The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years
  • FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform
  • Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court
  • A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department
  • The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions
  • The road the court trod.