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Author Burton, Orville Vernon, author.

Title Justice deferred : race and the Supreme Court / Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
©2021

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  342.7308 BURTON    Check Shelf
Description 449 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the road to civil war -- A new birth of freedom -- The Supreme Court in reconstruction -- The Supreme Court and the Jim Crow counterrevolution -- Beginning the long, slow turnaround -- Breaking new ground -- The end of separate but equal -- Opposing forces : massive resistance and the civil rights movement -- A new birth of freedom, again -- Change in the court -- The war of words: "purpose" and "effect" -- Affirmative action: color blind or color conscious -- The color of criminal justice.
Summary "In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a historian and a civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. Discussing nearly 200 cases in historical context, the authors show the Court can still help fulfill the nation's promise of equality for all"-- Provided by the publisher.
Subject Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
United States. Supreme Court -- History.
United States. Supreme Court. (OCoLC)fst00529481
Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01086474
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Derfner, Armand, author.
ISBN 9780674975644 (hardcover)
0674975642 (hardcover)
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