Reconsidering Roosevelt on race how the presidency paved the road to Brown
McMahon, Kevin J
Reconsidering Roosevelt on race how the presidency paved the road to Brown - Chicago University of Chicago Press 2004 - x,298p. 24 cm.
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.
9780226500881
2003008350
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 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--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
E807 / .M38 2004
323.196073 / MC-R
Reconsidering Roosevelt on race how the presidency paved the road to Brown - Chicago University of Chicago Press 2004 - x,298p. 24 cm.
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.
9780226500881
2003008350
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 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--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
E807 / .M38 2004
323.196073 / MC-R