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Justice For Black Americans: Two Hundred Years After Independence. The Afro-American Before the Burger Court, 1969-1976
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Gill, Robert Lewis – Negro Educational Review, 1976
Notes that the Afro-Americans' struggle for equality during the second century has been waged on many fronts: education, jobs, housing, public accommodations, voting rights, and human dignity, among others. (Author)
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Court Litigation, Court Role
The Afro-American before the Burger Court, 1976-1978: Justice Granted or Justice Denied?
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Gill, Robert Lewis – Negro Educational Review, 1978
Supreme Court rulings during 1976-78 on capital punishment; criminal justice and prisoner rights; busing and school desegregation; discrimination in housing and employment; rights of illegitimates and family relations; abortion, voting rights, tenant landlord relations; and "reverse discrimination" have had a significant impact on Black Americans.…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Correctional Institutions, Elementary Secondary Education
The Effects of the Burger Court Decisions upon the Lives of Black Families.
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Gill, Robert Lewis – Negro Educational Review, 1981
Reviews court decisions on discrimination cases to show that the rulings of the Supreme Court under the Nixon administration have been detrimental to the racial desegregation movement. (MJL)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
Brown II vs Board of Education of Topeka: Its Human Advances and Human Tragedies, 1955-1980.
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Gill, Robert Lewis – Negro Educational Review, 1981
Discusses numerous issues related to school desegregation and the Brown decision, including: (1) misconceived psychological arguments used to bolster the case for "Brown"; (2) student and community attitudes toward busing; (3) effects of busing; (4) regional differences in compliance with school desegregation; and (5) recent court litigation and…
Descriptors: Busing, Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation