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Book Fair Ways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert J. Robertson
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2005-10-18
  • ISBN : 9781585444427
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Fair Ways written by Robert J. Robertson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1955, early in the modern civil rights era, six African American golfers in Beaumont, Texas, began attacking the Jim Crow caste system when they filed a federal lawsuit for the right to play the municipal golf course. The golfers and their African American lawyers went to federal court and asked a conservative white Republican judge to render a decision that would not only integrate the local golf course but also set precedent for desegregation of other public facilities, as well. In Fair Ways, Beaumont native Robert J. Robertson chronicles three parallel stories that converged in this important case. He tells the story of the plaintiffs—avid golfers who had learned the game while working as caddies and waiters—and their young lawyers, recent graduates from Howard University law school, and the Republican judge just appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower. Would the judge apply the new principles of Brown v. Board of Education to the questions before him? Would he use federal judicial power to override state laws and outlaw local customs? Fair Ways gives an uncommonly vivid picture of racial segregation and the forces that brought about its end. Using public case papers, public records, newspapers, and oral histories, Robertson has recreated the scene in Beaumont on the eve of desegregation, describing in detail the parallel white and black communities that characterized the Jim Crow caste system. Through this account, the forces at work in the South—education, military experience, rising expectations, the NAACP, and the rule of law—are personified dramatically by the golfers, the lawyers, and the judge.

Book Advancing Democracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amilcar Shabazz
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2005-11-16
  • ISBN : 0807875988
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Advancing Democracy written by Amilcar Shabazz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for the first time. Amilcar Shabazz shows that the development of black higher education in Texas--which has historically had one of the largest state college and university systems in the South--played a pivotal role in the challenge to Jim Crow education. Shabazz begins with the creation of the Texas University Movement in the 1880s to lobby for equal access to the full range of graduate and professional education through a first-class university for African Americans. He traces the philosophical, legal, and grassroots components of the later campaign to open all Texas colleges and universities to black students, showing the complex range of strategies and the diversity of ideology and methodology on the part of black activists and intellectuals working to promote educational equality. Shabazz credits the efforts of blacks who fought for change by demanding better resources for segregated black colleges in the years before Brown, showing how crucial groundwork for nationwide desegregation was laid in the state of Texas.

Book Colored Zion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donna Byard Sealey
  • Publisher : Dartmouth, N.S. : D.B. Sealey
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Colored Zion written by Donna Byard Sealey and published by Dartmouth, N.S. : D.B. Sealey. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170  c  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

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Book Black Americans Information Directory

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Book Black Americans Information Directory

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Book D   B Consultants Directory

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Book Who s who Among Black Americans

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Book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170  c  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

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Book Directories in Print

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Book Who s who Among African Americans

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Book Editor   Publisher

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