Simple Justice: A History of Brown v. Board of Education & Black America's Struggle for Equality
Simple Justice: A History of Brown v. Board of Education & Black America's Struggle for Equality
First published in 1975, this work examines the Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation and culminated a century-long social and legal struggle to establish black equality in the United States.
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- Vintage
- Year
- 2004
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Civil rightsSchool segregationSupreme Court
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1977)
Other awarded books from Richard Kluger
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- Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
- The Paper: The Life and Times of the New York Herald Tribune
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