TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrews,Gordon
TI  - Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, race, labor, and the law, 1895-1950 
SN  - 9781443859295
AV  - KF373.H644 A53 2014eb
U1  - 973.9 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Houston, Charles Hamilton,
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Segregation
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - History
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Employment
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Ségrégation
KW  - Droits
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Travail
KW  - Histoire constitutionnelle
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biography: historical, political & military
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Civil rights & citizenship
KW  - Law & society
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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