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We Face the Dawn - Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow (Paperback)
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We Face the Dawn - Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow (Paperback)
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
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The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America
were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved
through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless
individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the
Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping story of how the South's
most significant grassroots legal team challenged the barriers of
racial segregation in mid-century America. Virginians Oliver Hill
and Spottswood Robinson initiated and argued one of the five cases
that combined into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, but
their influence extends far beyond that momentous ruling. They were
part of a small brotherhood, headed by social-justice pioneer
Thurgood Marshall and united largely through the Howard Law School,
who conceived and executed the NAACP's assault on racial
segregation in education, transportation, housing, and voting. Hill
and Robinson's work served as a model for southern states and an
essential underpinning for Brown. When the Virginia General
Assembly retaliated with laws designed to disbar the two lawyers
and discredit the NAACP, they defiantly carried the fight to the
United States Supreme Court and won. At a time when numerous
schools have resegregated and the prospects of many minority
children appear bleak, Hill and Robinson's remarkably effective
campaign against various forms of racial segregation can inspire a
new generation to embrace educational opportunity as the birthright
of every American child.
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