Lexington Books
Pages: 216
Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-1-4985-6526-4 • Hardback • June 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
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Sally F. Paulson is independent scholar and practicing attorney in Memphis, Tennessee.
Chapter I. The Situation
Chapter II. The Road to “Separate but Equal”
Chapter III. The Graduate School “Equality” Cases of the 1930’s
Chapter IV. McLaurin v. Oklahoma: “Separate Cannot Be Equal”
Chapter V. Public School Desegregation
Chapter VI. Brown II: “With All Deliberate Speed”
Chapter VII. “White Flight”
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights offers a fresh take on longstanding questions about the legal and rhetorical nature of citizenship rights. Sally F. Paulson’s thoughtful, accessible study is a welcome addition to the growing rhetorical scholarship on school desegregation in the United States.
— Melody Lehn