Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision, by Irons, Peter
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Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision, by Irons, Peter. Viking: New York, 2002. Edition: First Edition with full number line and "First Published" statement.. ISBN: 0670889180. Hardcover, 376 pages. Quarter bound in black cloth over orange paper-covered boards; gilt lettering on spine. Index, suggested readings, and chapter sources.

Condition: Book: Near Fine. Top page edges have very minor smudges, otherwise clean and tight. Jacket: Fine, with only the smallest amount of rubbing from being shelved. Books appears unread.

Contents: From the cover:

In this powerful, insightful book, [award-winning historian Peter] Irons explores the 150-year struggle against Jim Crow education. He weaves a gripping drama from courtroom battles that began with the first case, filed in Boston in 1849, through the victory of NAACP lawyers in Brown, to the erosion of that decision in Supreme Court rulings in the 1990s. Irons paints vivid portraits of lawyers and judges such as Thurgood Marshall, John W. Davis, Felix Frankfurter, and Earl Warren, as well as captivating sketches of black children like Sarah Roberts in 1849, Linda Brown in 1954, and Kalima Jenkins in 1995, whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools.