Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty by Clarke Rountree, Ann ... - 9780739114599

Brown v. Board of Education at FiftyA Rhetorical Retrospective\nAuthor(s): Clarke Rountree, Ann E. Burnette, David Droge, Ann M. Gill, Marouf Hasian Jr., Daniel Mangis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739114599, 978-0739114599\nSynopsis\nThe story of Brown v. Board of Education is a half-century old now and has been retold many times by historians, legal scholars, sociologists, and others. This collection of persuasive scholarly essays examines, for the first time, the role rhetorical theory played in the development of educational segregation. Contributors consider the NAACPOs development of a series of graduate school cases to challenge Plessy, analyze the Brown decision itself, assess the state response to Brown, and critique the two Supreme Court decisions implementing the Brown decision. By illustrating how rhetorical strategies created, sustained, challenged, and, ultimately, reversed educational seg.