| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) |
| 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 -- The political economy of Scottsboro -- The pull of the NAACP and a second Scottsboro -- Race, presidential power, and agency -- Houston, the NAACP, and labor -- The balance of power, 1940-1945 -- Without prejudice or bias |
| 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 .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950.
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| SUBJECT |
Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950 fast |
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography
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African Americans -- Segregation.
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
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African Americans -- Employment -- History
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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Biography: historical, political & military.
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Civil rights & citizenship.
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Law & society.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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African American civil rights workers
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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African Americans -- Employment
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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African Americans -- Segregation
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Constitutional history
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443859295 |
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144385929X |
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