The Struggle for Equality: Landmark Court Cases

By: Currie, Stephen

Many critical conversations surrounding African American civil rights, equality, and constitutional rights have occurred on the floor of a courtroom over the course of the last century. This necessary volume takes a hard look at the history of those cases and describes the stakes and developments of each case in detail. Readers will learn about how racial segregation was upheld under the doctrine of separate but equal in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420501224
• ISBN13: 9781420501223
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Lucent Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10