NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950

ISBN: 9780807855959

出版社: The University of North Carolina Press

出版年: 2005-2-28

页数: 264

定价: USD 25.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 "Brown" decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and political and legal skills of staff members such as Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Thurgood Marshall were responsible for the ultimate success of public interest law. This edition contains a new epilogue by the author that addresses general questions of litigation strategy, the contested question of whether the "Brown" decision mattered, and the legacy of "Brown" through the Burger and Rehnquist courts.