TY - BOOK AU - McMahon,Kevin J. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Reconsidering Roosevelt on race: how the presidency paved the road to Brown AV - E807 .M38 2004eb U1 - 323.1/196073/009043 21 PY - 2004/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Roosevelt, Franklin D. KW - United States KW - Supreme Court KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Segregation in education KW - Law and legislation KW - Race relations KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government KW - 1933-1945 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index; The day they drove old Dixie down -- The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years -- FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform -- Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court -- A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department -- The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions -- The road the court trod; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10372067 ER -