School Segregation (3 results)

An uncommon NAACP publication, published right after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, with a range of articles on racism and segregation in Virginia and the efforts to desegregate schools there. The pamphlet is made up of several essays, entitled "Behind the Segregation Curtain," "The N.A.A.C.P. - Defender of Constitutional Freedom," "The Truch about what led to School Cases," "Lookng at Work of the NAACP in the Fight for Integrated Schools in Virginia," "Integration - An Avenue to Liberty for Both Groups," "The Way to Genuine Good Race Relations in Virginia," and "Our Way of Life in Virginia." The essays are all written anonymously. The pamphlet argues for the use of reason in reversing racial prejudice and suggests appealing to the intelligence of people as a means for combating the problem. Uncommon, with four copies held institutionally. 8vo, wraps, 30 pp. Some light wear, staple holes to edge, original owner's address and postage mark on back cover, overall very good plus.

Original printed wrappers with wrapper title, as issued, and original staples. ii, 13, [1] pp. Near Fine. The Supreme Court heard argument in December 1952, but held the cases over for reargument in the following term. This is the Amicus Curiae brief submitted by the American Veterans Committee for the first argument. Supporting the District of Columbia children seeking to integrate the Washington public schools, the Committee contends that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to be free from racial discrimination, that equality of education is impossible under a regime of racially segregated schools, that equality can be achieved only by abolition of compulsory segregation by race, and that "The people of Washington are ready for and will accept integration of their public schools." The brief is signed in type by the Committee's National Counsel, Phineas Indritz, who was a distinguished civil rights and constitutional lawyer.

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