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Courage to dissent

Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement

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Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement

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578

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Courage to dissent: Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement
2011, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

pt. 1. A.T. Walden and pragmatic civil rights lawyering in the postwar era
"Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism
The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957
Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959
"Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958
More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959
pt. 2. The movement, its lawyers, and the fight for racial justice during the 1960s
Seeking redress in the streets : the student movment's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961
A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964
Local people as agents of constitutional change : legal dead ends, the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964
"New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967
pt. 3. Questioning Brown : lawyers, courts, and communities in struggle
A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1971
An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1971-1974
"Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
342.7308/5
Library of Congress
KF4757 .B76 2011, KF4757.B76 2010, KF4757 .B74 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
578

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Open Library
OL24478596M
Internet Archive
couragetodissent00brow
ISBN 10
0195386590
ISBN 13
9780195386592
LCCN
2010010825
OCLC/WorldCat
588998950

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