Reconsidering Roosevelt on race [electronic resource] : how the presidency paved the road to Brown / Kevin J. McMahon.
By: McMahon, Kevin J.
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BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004Description: x, 298 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 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 -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects | United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.1/196073/009043 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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