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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality - Softcover

Klarman, Michael J.

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Synopsis

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights offers an authoritative account of the causes and consequences of all of the Supreme Court's race decisions from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown vs. Board of Education. Klarman spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices make their decisions, offering the richest and most thorough discussion to date of how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter.

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About the Author

Michael J. Klarman is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Klarman clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg and then earned his D. Phil. from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his spouse, Lisa Landsverk, and their four children.

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