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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394722558
ISBN-139780394722559
eBay Product ID (ePID)377077
Product Key Features
Book TitleSimple Justice : The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Number of Pages864 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1977
TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, Educational Law & Legislation
GenreLaw, Social Science
AuthorRichard Kluger
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight36.9 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition18
Reviews"An extraordinary research effort, and a major contribution to our understanding of the Supreme Court. ...Kluger has written three distinct books within one jacket. The first is an account of race relations in America. The second is a detailed study of the complex process -- the litigation strategy -- by which the five consolidated cases that we now know as Brown arose and worked their way up to the Supreme Court. The third is a meticulously researched account of the process within the Supreme Court by which the Brown decision was reached. -- Harvard Law Review "A thought-provoking work that should become part of the standard literature on race relations." -- The New York Times Book Review "The definitive account, to date, of the struggle for black equality in America." -- The Nation
Dewey Decimal344/.73/0798
SynopsisThe Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation and culminated a century long social and legal struggle to establish black equality in the U.S.
Civil Rights Activist & GMU Professor Roger Wilkins opened my eyes with this book in 1999. Simple Justice takes the reader from the slave ship through Jim Crow to Brown v. The Board of Education in the fight for equality. Change was made through the courts by lawyers like Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshal. Just like segregation, police brutality and lynchings must be attacked through the courts. We need more civil rights lawyers bringing lawsuits to make change.
This book will change your life. Then read the Psalms and see how they both match up. Simple Justice is one of 3 books I would choose for a “desert island” or my 420 sq ft apartment in Baltimore.
1. The Bible
2. Simple Justice
3. Oh The Places You Will Go, Dr. Seuss