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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主要作者: Gonda, Jeffrey D. (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [2015]
丛编:Justice, power, and politics.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469625461_gonda
书本目录:
  • 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.