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Item Details
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LAW TOUCHED OUR HEARTS
A GENERATION REMEMBERS - BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION |
| By: |
Mildred Wigfall Robinson (Editor), Richard J. Bonnie (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£38.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
082651619X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780826516190 |
| Publisher: |
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 February, 2009 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
Presents stories of black and white Americans, men and women, from all parts of the nation, who were public school students during the years immediately after Brown. This book provides a picture of how social change can shape the careers of an entire generation in one profession. |
| Synopsis: |
In February 1954, President Eisenhower invited Chief Justice Warren to dinner at the White House. Among the guests were well-known opponents of school desegregation. During that evening, Eisenhower commented to Warren that 'law and force cannot change a man's heart.' Three months later, however, the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in Brown, and the contributors to this book, like people across the country, were profoundly changed by it, even though many saw almost nothing change in their communities.What Brown did was to elevate race from the country's dirty secret to its most urgent topic of conversation. This book stands alone in presenting, in one source, stories of black and white Americans, men and women, from all parts of the nation, who were public school students during the years immediately after Brown. All shared an epiphany. Some became aware of race and the burden of racial separation. Others dared to hope that the yoke of racial oppression would at last be lifted.The editors surveyed 4750 law professors born between 1936 and 1954, received 1000 responses, and derived these forty essays from those willing to write personal accounts of their childhood experiences in the classroom and in their communities.Their moving stories of how Brown affected them say much about race relations then and now. They also provide a picture of how social change can shape the careers of an entire generation in one profession. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Vanderbilt University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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