New from the University of Missouri Press:
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation, by James W. Endersby (University of Missouri) and William T. Horner (University of Missouri). A description from the Press:
In 1936, Lloyd Gaines’s application to the University of
Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP
challenged the university’s decision.
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
(1938) was the first in a long line of decisions by the U.S. Supreme
Court regarding race, higher education, and equal opportunity. The court
case drew national headlines, and the NAACP moved Gaines to Chicago
after he received death threats. Before he could attend law school, he
vanished.
This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines
case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers—including
Charles Houston, known as “the man who killed Jim Crow”— who advanced a
concerted strategy to produce political change. Horner and Endersby also
discuss the African American newspaper journalists and editors who
mobilized popular support for the NAACP’s strategy. This book uncovers
an important step toward the broad acceptance of the principle that
racial segregation is inherently unequal.
This is the
inaugural volume in the series Studies in Constitutional Democracy,
sponsored by the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.
More information is available here.
