Unjust Deeds
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Unjust Deeds

The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Unjust Deeds

The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

About this book

In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants — one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists and lawyers at the NAACP fought through the nation’s courts to end the enforcement of these discriminatory contracts.

Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign, culminating in a landmark Supreme Court victory in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). Restoring this story to its proper place in the history of the black freedom struggle, Jeffrey D. Gonda’s groundbreaking study provides a critical vantage point to the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century and offers a new understanding of the evolving legal fight against Jim Crow in neighborhoods and courtrooms across America.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: Covenants
  9. Chapter Two: Courtrooms
  10. Chapter Three: The NAACP
  11. Chapter Four: To Washington
  12. Chapter Five: Failures and Foundations
  13. Afterword
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index