Item request has been placed!
×
Item request cannot be made.
×
Processing Request
THE RULING, BETWEEN THE LINES. (cover story)
Item request has been placed!
×
Item request cannot be made.
×
Processing Request
- Author(s): Shea, Christopher
- Source:
U.S. News & World Report. 3/22/2004, Vol. 136 Issue 10, p78-79. 2p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
- Subject Terms:
- Additional Information
- Subject Terms:
- Subject Terms:
- Abstract:
Discusses how the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education" Supreme Court decision has been received by legal scholars. Claim that nearly all American legal experts today agree with "Brown;" Claim that the outcome of the case was by no means uncertain, as the justices had to choose between the 14th Amendment and a string of legal decisions supporting the doctrine of "separate but equal" established in the 1896 case "Plessy v. Ferguson;" Details of arguments by prominent legal scholars of the time in support of "Plessy;" Details of how conservative legal scholar Robert Bork has explained his support of "Brown," despite his assumption that the framers of the 14th Amendment did not object to segregation; Details of the argument by Michael Klarman that "Brown" contributed little to the civil rights movement; Claim by Derrick Bell that "Brown" covers up entrenched patterns of inequality.
No Comments.