Reconsidering Roosevelt on race [electronic resource] : how the presidency paved the road to Brown / Kevin J. McMahon.
2004
E807 .M38 2004eb
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Reconsidering Roosevelt on race [electronic resource] : how the presidency paved the road to Brown / Kevin J. McMahon.
Author
McMahon, Kevin J.
ISBN
0226500861 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226500888 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226500888 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Language
English
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x, 298 p. ; 24 cm.
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E807 .M38 2004eb
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323.1/196073/009043
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.