TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMahon,Kevin J
TI  - Reconsidering Roosevelt on race : how the presidency paved the road to Brown 
SN  - 9780226500881
AV  - E807 .M38 2004
U1  - 323.196073 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago 
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Roosevelt, Franklin D.
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Segregation in education
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1933-1945
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/2003008350.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2003008350.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip042/2003008350.html
ER  -