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Revolution by Law - The Federal Government and the Desegregation of Alabama Schools (Hardcover)
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Revolution by Law - The Federal Government and the Desegregation of Alabama Schools (Hardcover)
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The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case was the start of a
long period of desegregation, but Brown did not give a roadmap for
how to achieve this lofty goal-it only provided the destination. In
the years that followed, the path toward the fulfillment of this
vision for school integration was worked out in the courts through
the efforts of the NAACP Legal Defense organization and the Civil
Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. One of the major
cases on this path was Lee v. Macon County Board of Education
(1967). Revolution by Law traces the growth of Lee v. Macon County
from a case to desegregate a single school district in rural
Alabama to a decision that paved the way for ending state-imposed
racial segregation of the schools in the Deep South. Author Brian
Landsberg began his career as a young attorney working for the
Civil Rights Division of the DOJ in 1964, the year after the
lawsuit that would lead to the Lee decision was filed. As someone
personally involved in the legal struggle for civil rights,
Landsberg writes with first-hand knowledge of the case. His
carefully researched study of this important case argues that
private plaintiffs, the executive branch, the federal courts, and
eventually Congress each played important roles in transforming the
South from the most segregated to the least segregated region of
the United States. The Lee case played a central role in
dismantling Alabama's official racial caste system, and the
decision became the model both for other statewide school
desegregation cases and for cases challenging conditions in prisons
and institutions for mentally ill people. Revolution by Law gives
readers a deep understanding of the methods used by the federal
government to desegregate the schools of the Deep South.
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