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Fair Ways: Swaim-Paup-Foran Spirit of Sport Series, Sponsored by James

Autor Robert J. Robertson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 2015
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 plaintiffsavid golfers who had learned the game while working as caddies and waitersand 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 Southeducation, military experience, rising expectations, the NAACP, and the rule of laware personified dramatically by the golfers, the lawyers, and the judge."
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ISBN-13: 9781623493561
ISBN-10: 1623493560
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Texas A&M University Press
Seria Swaim-Paup-Foran Spirit of Sport Series, Sponsored by James


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