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What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said : The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision.
Title:
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said : The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision.
Author:
Balkin, Jack.
ISBN:
9780814723043
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Brown v. Board of Education: A Critical Introduction -- Chapter 1: Brown as Icon -- Chapter 2: The History of the Brown Litigation -- Chapter 3: Rewriting Brown: A Guide to the Opinions -- Part II: Revised Opinions in Brown v. Board of Education -- Jack M. Balkin (judgment of the Court) -- Drew S. Days III (concurring) -- Bruce Ackerman (concurring) -- Frank I. Michelman (concurring in part and concurring in the judgment) -- John Hart Ely (concurring in the judgment except as to the remedy) -- Catharine A. MacKinnon (concurring in the judgment) -- Michael W. McConnell (concurring in the judgment) -- Cass R. Sunstein (concurring in the judgment) -- Derrick A. Bell (dissenting) -- Comments from the Contributors -- Appendix A: The Supreme Court's Original Opinions in Brown I, Bolling, and Brown II -- Brown v. Board of Education (Brown I) -- Bolling v. Sharpe -- Brown v. Board of Education (Brown II) -- Appendix B The Constitution of the United States of America: Selected Provisions -- Brown v. Board of Education: A Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Index.
Abstract:
Nine of America's top legal experts rewrite the landmark desegregation decision as they would like it to have been written.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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