"Simple Justice" by Richard Kluger

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A review/report of "Simple Justice" in which author Richard Kluger presents a thoroughly compelling account of what is one of the most important legal decisions in American history by tracing the historical lineage of inequality and discrimination and weaving in the personal accounts of the effects of that discrimination on the various plaintiffs.

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"In Simple Justice, author Richard Kluger provides a comprehensive judicial history of the Brown v. Board of Education case that resulted in the landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court to integrate American public schools in 1954. This judicial history is set within the framework of a broader history of black America, that of Jim Crow, and Plessy v. Ferguson, of angry white mobs, and generations of children denied opportunity, and of the community leaders and unlikely heroes who sought fairness and changed the American social and legal landscape. In a rich, descriptive, authoritative prose that seems to ease effortlessly from complicated legal details, to novel like descriptions of places and times in history, Kluger skillfully explains how a small dispute in a South Carolinian school district came to lead the case that would dismantle a system of inequality and discrimination some ninety-one years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued."

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