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

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Main Author: McMahon, Kevin J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945 > Relations with African Americans.
United States. > Supreme Court > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
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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.

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