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1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index. |
| Summary |
Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor and the Law, 1895-1950 explores the manner in which African Americans countered racialized impediments, attacking their legal underpinnings during the first half of the twentieth century. Specifically, Undoing Plessy explores the professional life of Charles Hamilton Houston, and the way it informs our understanding of change in the pre-Brown era. Houston dedicated his life to the emancipation of oppressed people, and was inspired early-on ... |
| Contents |
ESTABLISHING PLESSY: Conflict and progress in the nadir -- Plessy and its aftermath -- CONFRONTING PLESSY: Saving the world for democracy -- Exporting race : World War One and segregation -- UNDOING PLESSY: Incorporating rights : the nexus of race, labor, and the state -- Political economy of Scottsboro -- Pull of the NAACP and a second Scottsboro -- Race, presidential power, and agency -- Houston, the NAACP, and labor -- Balance of power, 1940-1945 -- Without prejudice or bias. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950.
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Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950. |
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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African American civil rights workers. |
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Biographies.
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African Americans -- Segregation.
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African Americans -- Segregation. |
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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African Americans -- Employment -- History.
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African Americans -- Employment. |
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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Constitutional history. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Andrews, Gordon, author. Undoing Plessy 1443854018 (OCoLC)869434487 |
| ISBN |
9781443859295 (electronic book) |
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144385929X (electronic book) |
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1443854018 |
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9781443854016 |
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