Undoing Plessy : Charles Hamilton Houston, race, labor, and the law, 1895-1950 / by Gordon Andrews.

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Andrews, Gordon [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014Description: 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781443859295
144385929X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Undoing PlessyDDC classification:

973.9 23 22

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KF373.H644 A53 2014eb

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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 ...

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.

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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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