| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vi, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-273) and index. |
| Contents |
New Haven, 1921-41 -- College and law school, 1941-46 -- The prelude to Brown -- Plessy v. Ferguson: our nineteenth-century legacy -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: our twentieth-century legacy -- Massive resistance and the immediate post-Brown era -- Desegregation and the rise of the federal judiciary -- The end of an era and the beginning of another -- James Meredith and the University of Mississippi -- Supreme Court years, 1961-65 -- A new career -- The Supreme Court and affirmative action. |
| Subject |
Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005.
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Judges -- New York (State) -- Biography.
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African American judges -- New York (State) -- Biography.
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Women judges -- New York (State) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0374148651 alkaline paper |
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9780374148652 alkaline paper |
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