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Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race : How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Kevin J. McMahon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (308 pages) : 2 tables
- text file
- ISBNs
- 9780226561127, 0226561127
- OCLC
- on1135592761
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One. Introduction: The Day They Drove Old Dixie Down -- Two. The Incongruities of Reform: Rights-Centered Liberalism and Legal Realism in the Early New Deal Years -- Three. FDR's Constitutional Vision and the Defeat of the Court-Packing Plan: The Modern Presidency and the Enemies of Institutional Reform -- Four. "Approving Legislation for the People, Preserving Liberties -- Almost Rewriting Laws": The Politics of Creating the Roosevelt Court -- Five. A Constitutional Purge: Southern Democracy, Lynch Law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department -- Six. The Commitment Continues: Truman, Eisenhower, and the Civil Rights Decisions -- Seven. Conclusion: The Road the Court Trod -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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.