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Charles H. Thompson - Policy Entrepreneur of the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
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Charles H. Thompson - Policy Entrepreneur of the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
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During a period when African-American education was at the
epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson s Journal
documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the
South despite significant increases in public school funding,
providing irrefutable evidence that racially segregated public
education was inherently discriminatory, hence, unconstitutional.
Between 1932 and 1954, Thompson s editorials provided a nuanced,
insider s account of one of the most successful policy research
ventures in American history: the movement to overturn racial
segregation as public policy, chronicling the rise during the
Depression, World War II and the postwar period of a policy
community committed to expanding human rights nationally and
internationally. A brilliant essayist, Thompson sought to close the
gap between America s democratic precepts and its undemocratic
practices by molding public opinion favorable to a significant
expansion of civil rights among scholars, policymakers and the
public. An expert witness in several landmark higher education
cases argued before the U. S. Supreme Court including Sipuel
(1948), Sweatt (1950) and McLaurin (1950), Thompson s editorials
provided an informed, eyewitness account of African-American
teachers pivotal role in the NAACP litigation campaign culminating
in the landmark Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka et al
(1954) desegregation ruling. This is the first, full-length study
of Charles H. Thompson s contributions to American education and
the civil rights movement."
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