Unjust deeds : the restrictive covenant cases and the making of the civil rights movement /
In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial res...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2015]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469625461_gonda |
Table of Contents:
- Covenants: race and housing in the 1940s
- Courtrooms : local lawyers and legal activism
- The NAACP : national leadership and housing desegregation
- To Washington : the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court
- Failures and foundations: the covenant cases and postwar black freedom struggles.