Unjust Deeds : The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Justice, Power, and Politics Series .
- Justice, Power, and Politics Series .
Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Restrictive Covenants, Housing Rights, and the Civil Rights Movement -- CHAPTER ONE: Covenants: Race and Housing in the 1940s -- CHAPTER TWO: Courtrooms: Local Lawyers and Legal Activism -- CHAPTER THREE: The NAACP: National Leadership and Housing Desegregation -- CHAPTER FOUR: To Washington: The Department of Justice and the Supreme Court -- CHAPTER FIVE: Failures and Foundations: The Covenant Cases and Postwar Black Freedom Struggles -- AFTERWORD: A Lingering Debt -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - United States.