Brown v. Board of Education at fifty : a rhetorical perspective
Six American communication studies scholars contribute six chapters to the first analysis of the role that rhetoric played in establishing, defending, challenging, and overturning legalized educational segregation by race. Coverage includes a reconstruction of the rhetorical context of Plessy v. Ferguson; the Harlan dissent in Plessy; the NAACP's efforts over 40-plus years to reverse Plessy's support of educational segregation; an analysis of the Brown decision, with particular focus on the controversial use of social scientific evidence; the reaction to the Brown decision in the South; and a comparison of two major Supreme Court decisions implementing Brown. Annotation ̧2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) -- Distributed by Syndetics Solutions, LLC
Trial and arbitral proceedings
xix, 199 pages ; 24 cm
9780739108543, 9780739114599, 0739108549, 073911459X
55600977
Revisiting the case of Plessy v. Ferguson / Marouf Hasian, Jr
Dissent as prophecy : Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson as the religious rhetoric of law / Daniel Mangis
Setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education : The NAACP's litigation campaign against the "separate but equal" doctrine / Clarke Rountree
From natural to cultural inferiority : the symbolic reconstruction of white supremacy in Brown v. Board of Education / David Droge
The rhetoric of Virginia's massive resistance movement / Ann E. Burnette
The Supreme Court's rhetoric of legitimization / Ann M. Gill