Choosing Equality - Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience

About the author

Robert L. Hayman Jr. is Professor of Law at Widener University. Among his publications is The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law (1998).Leland Ware is Louis L. Redding Professor for the Study of Law and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. He is the co-author of “Brown v. Board of Education”: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution (2003), which won the Langum Prize for Legal History in 2004, and Thurgood Marshall: Freedom's Defender (1999). He served as a trial attorney for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice from 1979 to 1984.

Summary

Examines the desegregation experience, with a focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, through Parents Involved v. Seattle School District in 2007. Assesses desegregation in Delaware, one of the states involved in the original Brown litigation.

Product details

• Authors: Robert L. Hayman Jr.
• Assisted by: Robert L. Jr. Hayman (Editor), Robert L. Hayman Jr. (Editor), Robert L. (Widener Law) Hayman Jr. (Editor), Leland Ware (Editor), Leland (University of Delaware) Ware (Editor), Biden Joe (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780271034348
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03434-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 599 g
• Illustrations: Schaubilder
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / General, LAW / Civil Rights, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, History of the Americas, Law: Human rights and civil liberties