Reconsidering Roosevelt on race : how the presidency paved the road to Brown / / Kevin J. McMahon.
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 298 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.