Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights : The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of with All Deliberate Speed.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Rhetoric, Race, and Religion Series .
- Rhetoric, Race, and Religion Series .
Cover -- Desegregation and the RhetoricalFight for AfricanAmerican CitizenshipRights -- Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights: The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of "With All Deliberate Speed" -- Copyrigth page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- The Situation -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- The Road to "Separate but Equal" -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- The Graduate School "Equality" Cases of the 1930s -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- McLaurin v. Oklahoma -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Public School Desegregation -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Brown II -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- "White Flight" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
This book examines the rhetorical/legal dynamics of the NAACP's twentieth-century struggle to overturn the "separate but equal" doctrine through school desegregation cases. It reveals that the Supreme Court relied not only on logical arguments but emotional and ethical appeals to reach Brown II's "with all deliberate speed" decree.