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Unjust Deeds : The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Justice, Power, and Politics SeriesPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9798890850362
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unjust DeedsDDC classification:
  • 344.73/0636351
LOC classification:
  • KF228.S53
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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