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Courage to dissent [electronic resource]

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Title Courage to dissent [electronic resource] : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement / Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
Contributors American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher Oxford [U.K.]
New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-561) and index.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Content "Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism -- The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957 -- Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959 -- "Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958 -- More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959 -- Seeking redress in the streets : the student movement's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961 -- A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964 -- Local people as agents of constitutional change : the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964 -- "New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967 -- A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1968 -- An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1969-1974 -- "Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.
Extent xi, 578 p., [12] pages of plates : ill
25 cm.
Host Item ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Language English
National Library system number 990037658810205171

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