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The Bricks Before Brown: The Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican Americans' Struggle for Educational Equality

The Bricks Before Brown: The Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican Americans' Struggle for Educational Equality

Martinez-Cola, Marisela

Paperback

Series: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

General LawGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0820362034
ISBN13: 9780820362038
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Aug 1 2022
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation are unconstitutional, declaring separate is inherently unequal. Known as a seminal Supreme Court case and civil rights victory, Brown v. Board of Education resulted from many legal battles that predicated its existence. Marisela Martinez-Cola writes about the many important cases that led to the culmination of Brown. She reveals that the road to Brown is lined with bricks representing at least one hundred other families who legally challenged segregated schooling in state and federal courts across the country, eleven of which involved Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican American plaintiffs.

By revealing the significance of Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican American segregation cases, Martinez-Cola provides an opportunity for an increasingly diverse America to be fully invested in the complete grand narrative of the civil rights movement. To illustrate the evolution of these cases, she focuses on three court cases from California, including these stories as part of the long civil rights movement, and thus expands our understanding of the scope of that movement along racial, gender, and class lines. Comparing and discussing the meaning of the other court cases that led to the Brown decision strengthens the standing of Brown while revealing all the twists and turns inherent in the struggle for equality.

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