Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education (Scholastic Focus) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education (Scholastic Focus) write by Lawrence Goldstone. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education (Scholastic Focus) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone offers an affecting portrait of the road to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which significantly shaped the United States and effectively ended segregation. Since 1896, in the landmark outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson, the doctrine of "separate but equal" had been considered acceptable under the United States Constitution. African American and white populations were thus segregated, attending different schools, living in different neighborhoods, and even drinking from different water fountains. However, as African Americans found themselves lacking opportunity and living under the constant menace of mob violence, it was becoming increasingly apparent that segregation was not only unjust, but dangerous.Fighting to turn the tide against racial oppression, revolutionaries rose up all over America, from Booker T. Washington to W. E. B. Du Bois. They formed coalitions of some of the greatest legal minds and activists, who carefully strategized how to combat the racist judicial system. These efforts would be rewarded in the groundbreaking cases of 1952-1954 known collectively as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the US Supreme Court would decide, once and for all, the legality of segregation -- and on which side of history the United States would stand.In this thrilling examination of the path to Brown v. Board of Education, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone highlights the key trials and players in the fight for integration. Written with a deft hand, this story of social justice will remind readers, young and old, of the momentousness of the segregation hearings.
Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus)
Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus) write by Lawrence Goldstone. This book was released on 2022-06-07. Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In another unrelenting look at the iniquities of the American justice system, Lawrence Goldstone, acclaimed author of Unpunished Murder, Stolen Justice, and Separate No More, examines the history of racism against Japanese Americans, exploring the territory of citizenship and touching on fears of non-white immigration to the US -- with hauntingly contemporary echoes. On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans to what government officials themselves called "concentration camps." None of these citizens had been accused of a real crime. All of them were torn from their homes, jobs, schools, and communities, and deposited in tawdry, makeshift housing behind barbed wire, solely for the crime of being of Japanese descent. President Roosevelt declared this community "alien," -- whether they were citizens or not, native-born or not -- accusing them of being potential spies and saboteurs for Japan who deserved to have their Constitutional rights stripped away. In doing so, the president set in motion another date which would live in infamy, the day when the US joined the ranks of those Fascist nations that had forcibly deported innocents solely on the basis of the circumstance of their birth. In 1944 the US Supreme Court ruled, in Korematsu v. United States, that the forcible deportation and detention of Japanese Americans on the basis of race was a "military necessity." Today it is widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. But Korematsu was not an isolated event. In fact, the Court's racist ruling was the result of a deep-seated anti-Japanese, anti-Asian sentiment running all the way back to the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. Starting from this pivotal moment, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone will take young readers through the key events of the 19th and 20th centuries leading up to the fundamental injustice of Japanese American internment. Tracing the history of Japanese immigration to America and the growing fear whites had of losing power, Goldstone will raise deeply resonant questions of what makes an American an American, and what it means for the Supreme Court to stand as the "people's" branch of government.
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus)
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus) write by Lawrence Goldstone. This book was released on 2020-01-07. Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United States. Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote?In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army of occupation. Yet, even that was not enough to ensure that African American voices would be heard, or their lives protected. White supremacists loudly and intentionally prevented black Americans from voting -- and they were willing to kill to do so.In this vivid portrait of the systematic suppression of the African American vote for young adults, critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone traces the injustices of the post-Reconstruction era through the eyes of incredible individuals, both heroic and barbaric, and examines the legal cases that made the Supreme Court a partner of white supremacists in the rise of Jim Crow. Though this is a story of America's past, Goldstone brilliantly draws direct links to today's creeping threats to suffrage in this important and, alas, timely book.
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown V. Board of Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brown V. Board of Education write by Susan Dudley Gold. This book was released on 2005. Brown V. Board of Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the court cases involved in the litigation of education in separate schools that affected the outcome of Brown v. the Board of Education.
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown V. Board of Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brown V. Board of Education write by Harvey Fireside. This book was released on 1994. Brown V. Board of Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Linda Carol Brown's father decided that his daughter should go to the neighborhood, all-white, school instead of taking a bus to a colored school, the stage was set for a Supreme Court case that abolished separate but equal education.
