Brown V. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement

by Michael J. Klarman

Book Overview

A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed study into tight focus around one major case--Brown v. Board of Education--making the path-breaking arguments of his original work accessible to a broader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195307631
• ISBN13: 9780195307634
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"