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In *Jim Crow’s Children*, historian Peter H. Irons charts a 150‑year history of segregation in American education. Beginning with the 1849 Boston case, he follows the NAACP’s legal victories in Brown v. Board of Education and the later Supreme Court rulings of the 1990s that weakened those gains. Through vivid portraits of key lawyers and judges—Thurgood Marshall, John W. Davis, Felix Frankfurter, and Earl Warren— and the experiences of African American students such as Sarah Roberts (1849), Linda Brown (1954), and Kalima Jenkins (1995), Irons demonstrates how resegregation has widened racial gaps in academic performance.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Peter H. Irons
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