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Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights : The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of with All Deliberate Speed.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498565271
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship RightsDDC classification:
  • 323.1196/073
LOC classification:
  • E185 .P385 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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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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