Undoing Plessy : Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor, and the Law, 1895-1950.
Title:
Undoing Plessy : Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor, and the Law, 1895-1950.
Author:
Andrews, Gordon.
ISBN:
9781443859295
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- PART THREE -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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...
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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