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Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice
132 pp.
| Holiday |
October, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8234-3646-0$18.95
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4-6
In 1950, lawyer Thurgood Marshall--determined to "wipe out...all phases of segregation in education"--set about gathering legal cases he could use to argue that school segregation violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Rubin meticulously describes the five cases combined as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, accessibly presenting complicated legal history and skillfully building on the events' inherent drama. Timeline. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2016