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Reconsidering Roosevelt on race, how the presidency paved the road to Brown, Kevin J. McMahon

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Reconsidering Roosevelt on race, how the presidency paved the road to Brown, Kevin J. McMahon
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index
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individual biography
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Reconsidering Roosevelt on race
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
52121332
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Kevin J. McMahon
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Gift collection
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how the presidency paved the road to Brown
Table Of Contents
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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