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Title: Simple Justice by Richard Kluger ISBN: 0-394-72255-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: True Experience
Comment: This is the one book where all the rumours, gossips,government
participation in hindering black movement into the mainstream for obvious reasons like votes was documented. Simple Justice is really two books in one.
On the one hand there is the exhaustive documentation of the race relation in this country. the evolution from sharecropping, the obstacles and outright bigotry of some white people even leaders and experts in concluding thru so-called Sponsored studies that the blackman was genetically inferior and the subsequent counter studies that goes contrary to genetics, in d issue of Gene vs. Enviroment
On the other hand the legal maneuvering resulting in d decision we now called the brown vs. boe. the role of some white brothers is acknowledged here. thanks to the supreme court later to be headed by chief Justice Jarren-for daring to do what was then the inconceivable.
the decision among other thing brought the power of government and the role of d supreme court as the pre-eminent decision maker to the fore.
I must mention here that the actors like martin luther king jnr, Thurgood Marshal later a supreme court judge ,naacp members and other black men and women who risk all they have to win this case.
**I recommend that this book should b fed if possible to all blackmen in high schools that they may know how much it took to get to where we are today. that education should be taking seriously by all black people.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing narrative of legal civil rights history
Comment: Better than any biography on any of the characters involved in the many cases leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Dramatically will increase your understanding of civil rights history. The best legal analysis and historical depiction of the Brown decision. A compelling read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Justice for All, But Oh, the Cost
Comment: A quarter of a century after it was first published, "Simple Justice" still has the power to move, enrage and touch the hearts of anyone who believes that justice ultimately prevails.
It should be required reading in any college U.S. history course because it shines an intense spotlight on the complex development of legal issues and thinking that produced the end of segregation in the United States.
I do not exaggerate when I say I believe that this is the best history book I've ever read. Further, it's wise to read it now, because an awful lot of the people instrumental in the ultimate decision, Brown vs. the Board of Education, are dying out. The late Thurgood Marshall is a great example of a lost legal talent and courageous leader who did the right thing by all Americans by winning this case. Read this book now, if only so you'll recognize the heroes in their obituaries.
What Richard Kluger has done in this account is spell out the development first of segregation, telling us just who and how the dreaded Jim Crow laws came about-including segregation laws in the North-and then walk us through how, piece by piece, legal decisions were strung together to put an end to legal segregation.
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s and, if I thought about it at all, had the idea that the Brown decision had more or less come out of nowhere. Eventually, I began to catch on, and then I read this book. If you are similar-minded, this book will set you straight and point you to the many unsung heroes who have made us a fairer country, in line with the ideals that helped found this country. If you're a parent looking for good role models, forget sports and entertainment. Look to this book for examples of people who literally risked everything, and often paid dearly, to do the right thing. They didn't shrink from the challenge; they stepped forward, many many times. That so many others did not only reminds us of how fearful we are to force change or risk our own well being to tackle injustice. I wish I could rate it higher.
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Title: The Buffalo Creek Disaster : How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history broughtsuit against the coal company--and won by Gerald M. Stern ISBN: 0394723430 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1977 List Price(USD): $10.20 |
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Title: Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy by James T. Patterson ISBN: 0195156323 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Shapo and Shapo's Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success, 2d by Helene S. Shapo, Marshall Shapo, Helene Shapo, Bert S. Esselink ISBN: 1587781875 Publisher: West Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr ISBN: 0679772677 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis ISBN: 0679723129 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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