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Burton, Orville Vernon, author.
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United States. Supreme Court -- History.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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Justice deferred : r...
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Justice deferred : race and the Supreme Court / Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner.
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Burton, Orville Vernon, author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects
United States. Supreme Court -- History.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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9780674975644 (hardcover) :
0674975642 (hardcover) :
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449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the road to civil war -- A new birth of freedom -- The Supreme Court in reconstruction -- The Supreme Court and the Jim Crow counterrevolution -- Beginning the long, slow turnaround -- Breaking new ground -- The end of separate but equal -- Opening forces : massive resistance and the civil rights movement -- A new birth of freedom, again -- Change in the court -- The war of words: "purpose" and "effect" -- Affirmative action: color blind or color conscious -- The color of criminal justice.
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"In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a historian and a civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. Discussing nearly 200 cases in historical context, the authors show the Court can still help fulfill the nation's promise of equality for all"--
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