Cottrol, Robert J.

Brown v. Board of Education : caste, culture, and the constitution / Brown versus Board of Education Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. - Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2003. - xi, 292 p. ; 21 cm. - Landmark law cases & American society .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.

1. "A People Apart" -- 2. "Separate and Unequal": An American Apartheid at the Dawn of an American Century -- 3. The NAACP in the Interwar Years: The Struggle Renewed -- 4. From Scientific Racism to Uneasy Egalitarianism: One Nation's Troubled Odyssey -- 5. Setting the Stage -- 6. Arguing the Case -- 7. Anatomy of a Decision -- 8. Brown II: "All Deliberate Speed" -- 9. From Target to Icon: Brown and the Role of Courts in American Life. Epilogue. Brown and Race: The Divided Legacy. Chronology. Bibliographical Essay.

0700612882 (cloth : alk. paper) 0700612890 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2003013217


Brown, Oliver, 1918- --Trials, litigation, etc.


Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education --Trials, litigation, etc.


Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
African Americans--Civil rights.


United States--Race relations.

KF4155 / .C68 2003

344.73/0798