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Author Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970-

Title Courage to dissent : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement / Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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 Moore Stacks  KF4757 .B74 2011    Available  ---
Description xi, 578 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism -- The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957 -- Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959 -- "Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958 -- More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959 -- Seeking redress in the streets : the student movement's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961 -- A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964 -- Local people as agents of constitutional change : the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964 -- "New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967 -- A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1968 -- An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1969-1974 -- "Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.
Subject Segregation -- Law and legislation -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History.
Segregation -- Law and legislation.
Georgia -- Atlanta.
History.
Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
United States.
Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History.
Segregation.
Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
Chronological Term 20th century
ISBN 9780195386592 hardcover alkaline paper
0195386590 hardcover alkaline paper