Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, race, labor, and the law, 1895-1950, explores the manner in which African Americans countered racialized impediments during the first half of the twentieth century by attacking their legal underpinnings. Specifically, this work explores the professional life...

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1. Verfasser:	Andrews, Gordon C. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars 2014
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Houston, Charles Hamilton / 1895-1950 Houston, Charles Hamilton > 1895-1950 Geschichte 1920-1950 Civil rights African Americans / Segregation African American civil rights workers / Biography Schwarze. USA Bürgerrechtsbewegung USA Biografie Hochschulschrift
Zusammenfassung:	Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, race, labor, and the law, 1895-1950, explores the manner in which African Americans countered racialized impediments during the first half of the twentieth century by attacking their legal underpinnings. Specifically, this work explores the professional life of Charles Hamilton Houston, and the degree to which it informs our understanding of change in the pre-Brown era. There were a wide range of forces at work, from individuals, organizations, and institutions, to government in its various forms (local, state, and federal), complicating any strategy to reformulate the parameters of equality. Using both labor and education law as the focus of this study, I examine the complicating issues of race, the state, and the workplace to demonstrate the interplay of forces which together constituted the structure Charles Houston and others sought dismantle. Houston's life was replete with examples to illustrate the gains that could be made by an African American who sought to exercise his own agency, and contest the imposed boundaries that limited potential
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (leaves 329-346)
Beschreibung:	VIII,242 S. 29 cm