Reconsidering Roosevelt on race [electronic resource] : how the presidency paved the road to Brown / Kevin J. McMahon.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: x, 298 pSubject(s):- 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
- 323.1/196073/009043 21
- E807 .M38 2004
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
The day they drove old Dixie down -- The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years -- FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform -- Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court -- A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department -- The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions -- The road the court trod.
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