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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mitrovich, Paul H

Titel

Justice delayed: Federalization of the United States government from 1930 to 1954 was a highly significant cause of the civil rights movement for Blacks in the 1950's and 1960's

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

• ProQuest

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was the precursor for the civil rights movement which followed in the 1950's through the 1960's. A civil rights movement did not exist on the advent of Brown. Brown gave the direction for the movement because it established that the black man had all the legal rights under the Constitution as any other citizen. The road to Brown, however, was a slow evolutionary process of change within the federal government. The case was the result of political, social and economic forces applied by the federal government in retrieving power from the states which it abrogated after the Civil War. The term federalization as used in this paper refers not only to the evolutionary process of gaining power but one in which the change of form and objectives of government were essential. The Depression of the 1930's began the shift of power.