Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
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Winner, 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award
In 1936, Lloyd Gaines's application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university's decision. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first in a long line of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race, higher education, and equal opportunity. The court case drew national headlines, and the NAACP moved Gaines to Chicago after he received death threats. Before he could attend law school, he vanished.This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers--including Charles Houston, known as "the man who killed Jim Crow"--who advanced a concerted strategy to produce political change. Horner and Endersby also discuss the African American newspaper journalists and editors who mobilized popular support for the NAACP's strategy. This book uncovers an important step toward the broad acceptance of racial segregation as inherently unequal.
This is the inaugural volume in the series Studies in Constitutional Democracy, edited by Justin Dyer and Jeffrey Pasley of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0826220851
ISBN13:9780826220851
Release Date:March 2016
Publisher:University of Missouri Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.68 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Grade Range:Grade 12 to Postsecondary
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