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Desegregation and the Lawreviewed by David Fellman - 1958 Title: Desegregation and the Law Author(s): Albert P Blaustein, Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr. Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: , Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com By any calculation May 17, 1954, when segregation in the public schools was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, was a fateful day in the history of the United States. It was surpassingly important in many waysfor the Court, for education, for the course of American government and politics, for racial relations, and indeed for our international relations as well. It cannot be gainsaid that the decision in Brown V. Board of Education grew out of America's most serious social problem, the problem of extending to the Negro populationand one American in ten is a Negrofull democratic citizenship.
The storm kicked up by this decision has rarely been equaled in our history. Perhaps roughly comparable was the furore created by Chief Justice Taney's opinion in the Dred Scott case, which also dealt with the status of the American Negro. The Court's ruling against the constitutionality of the federal income tax in... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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