Richard Kluger. (2011). Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Richard Kluger. 2011. Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

Richard Kluger. Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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   • bioText: Richard Kluger, a Princeton graduate, worked as a journalist with The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and the New York Herald Tribune, on which he was the last literary editor, before entering book publishing.  After serving as executive editor at Simon and Schuster and editor-in-chief at Atheneum, he turned to writing fiction and social history.  He is the author of six novels (and two others with his wife, Phyllis), two National Book Award finalists–Simple Justice and The Paper (a history of the Herald Tribune)–and a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the American cigarette business, Ashes to Ashes.  He and his wife now live in Berkeley, California.
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Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation, Kluger has updated his work with a new final chapter covering events and issues that have arisen since the book was first published, including developments in civil rights and recent cases involving affirmative action, which rose directly out of Brown v. Board of Education.

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     "One of the most important books published in our American times. . . . A major accomplishment."

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   • content: "Extraordinary. . . . An outstanding piece of legal and social history."
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   • content: "A thought-provoking work that should become part of the standard literature on race relations."
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   • content: "The definitive account, to date, of the struggle for black equality in America. . . . A monumental accomplishment."
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   • content: "This huge, fascinating book . . . classic in its clarity and dimensions . . . should become part of our nation's scriptures."
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   • content: "An extraordinary research effort, and a major contribution to our understanding of the Supreme Court."
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   • content: "A brilliant and powerful book."
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   • content: "A gripping story . . . epic history."
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   • content: "A remarkable act of scholarship. . . . A book about values. . . . Its reader should be prepared to be moved."
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    • content: "A noble study, written in the grand manner."
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    • source: Anthony Lewis
    • content: "A remarkable book, moving and intellectually rich, mixing scholarship and humanity as it explores the modern Supreme Court's most important decision."
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    • content: "A masterful storyteller. . . . Kluger finds heroes all along the way. . . . Embellished with captivating anecdotes . . . [and] engrossing character vignettes."
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    • content: "An exciting story of an American happening as important as the Revolution itself. . . . Superb narrative history."
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      Starred review from July 1, 2004
      Pulitzer Prize winner Kluger's 1976 volume is considered the definitive chronicle of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, capturing both the legal and human drama. To commemorate the history-making decision's 50th anniversary, Kluger has added a new final chapter updating civil rights developments since the book's initial publication. Even if your existing editions are still serviceable, you should consider updating with this expanded text.

      Copyright 2004 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark " Brown "decision, this update and expansion of the widely acclaimed original work, published in 1976, goes beyond portrayals of the major players involved in the decision--the NAACP legal team, including Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston; the defender of states' rights, John Davis; and Chief Justice Earl Warren, who brokered a unanimous decision shortly after joining the Court; and the complainants, who undertook personal risk to challenge the doctrine of separate but equal. In this volume, Kluger also analyzes the nation's progress on race issues in the intervening 28 years since the book was first published. In a new chapter, he looks at the politics and policies of the Nixon and Reagan eras--courting the South through retrenchment on racial integration and frontal attacks on busing--up to the current national obsession with colorblindness that has fostered a hypersegregation that mirrors conditions before the " Brown "decision. This is a powerful resource for readers interested in reviewing the particulars of " Brown "and the changes that have occurred since that landmark ruling.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)

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