Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

by Rawn James Jr.

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Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of court challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling Jim Crow one statute at a time.

Charles Hamilton Houston laid the groundwork, reinventing the law school at Howard University (where he taught a young, brash Thurgood Marshall) and becoming...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1608193896

ISBN13:9781608193899

Release Date:January 2013

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

20th Century African-American & Black African-American Studies Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Civil Rights & Liberties Ethnic & National History

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