Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index
The day they drove old Dixie down -- The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years -- FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform -- Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court -- A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department -- The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions -- The road the court trod
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Roosevelt, Franklin D., (Franklin Delano),1882-1945-- Relations with African Americans
United States.-- History-- 20th century
African Americans-- Civil rights-- History-- 20th century
African Americans-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- History-- 20th century
Segregation in education-- Law and legislation-- United States-- History-- 20th century