{"product_id":"little-rock-on-trial-cooper-v-aaron-and-school-desegregation-paperback","title":"Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTony A. Freyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner: J.G. Ragsdale Book Award\u003cbr\u003eChoice Outstanding Title\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans were riveted to their television sets in 1957, when a violent mob barred black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School and faced off against paratroopers sent by a reluctant President Eisenhower. That set off a firestorm of protest throughout the nation and ultimately led to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in \u003ci\u003eCooper v. Aaron\u003c\/i\u003e, reaffirming \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education'\u003c\/i\u003es mandate for school integration \"with all deliberate speed\" and underscoring the supremacy of federal and constitutional authority over state law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoted scholar Tony Freyer, arguably our nation's top authority on this subject, now provides a concise, lucid, and eminently teachable summary of that historic case and shows that it paved the way for later civil rights victories. He chronicles how the Little Rock school board sought court approval to table integration efforts and how the black community brought suit against the board's watered-down version of compliance. The board's request was denied by a federal appeals court and taken to the Supreme Court, where the unanimous ruling in Cooper reaffirmed federal law--but left in place the maddening ambiguities of \"all deliberate speed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile other accounts have focused on the showdown on the schoolhouse steps, Freyer takes readers into the courts to reveal the centrality of black citizens' efforts to the origins and outcome of the crisis. He describes the work of the Little Rock NAACP--with its Legal Defense Fund led by Thurgood Marshall and Wiley Branton--in defining the issues and abandoning gradualism in favor of direct confrontation with the segregationist South. He also includes the previously untold account of Justice William Brennan's surprising influence upon Justice Felix Frankfurter's controversial concurring opinion, which preserved his own \"deliberate speed\" wording from Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eCooper\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"well morticed high wall\" of segregation had finally cracked. As the most important test of Brown, which literally contained the means to thwart its own intent, it presaged the civil rights movement's broader nonviolent mass action combining community mobilization and litigation to finally defeat Jim Crow. It was not only a landmark decision, but also a turning point in America's civil rights struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.37 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53387278057747,"sku":"9780700615360","price":53.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6300\/3667\/files\/5RqXjKr9VI9780700615360.webp?v=1769522080","url":"https:\/\/finduslaw.com\/products\/little-rock-on-trial-cooper-v-aaron-and-school-desegregation-paperback","provider":"FindUSlaw Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}