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(0)Melvin I. Urofsky
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Melvin Urofsky explores affirmative action in relation to sex, gender, and education and shows that nearly every public university in the country has at one time or another instituted some form of affirmative action plan-some successful, others not. Urofsky traces the evolution of affirmative action through labor and the struggle for racial equality, writing of World War I and the exodus that began when some six million African Americans moved northward...
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Born in Louisville, Kentucky, four years before the start of the Civil War, Brandeis came of age in a simple, rural America undergoing vast transition into an industrial powerhouse. The transition spawned a myriad of social problems and inequities, for which he blamed big business as well as the constant erosion of older Jeffersonian values he knew and cherished. But he was never a romanticist who wanted to turn back the clock. During the early days...
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This volume provides in a single source a thorough grounding in the origin, development, and current controversies surrounding the free practice of religion. Annotation. Urofsky (public policy and history, Virginia Commonwealth U.-Richmond) offers a reference to high school and undergraduate students who are beginning research into debates about religious freedom in the US. After describing the origins and development of the concept and the establishment...
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"THE CONTINUITY OF CHANGE is a history of the Warren and Burger Courts. It examines the way the two Courts interpreted the meaning of certain basic rights between 1953, the year Earl Warren became Chief Justice, and 1986, when his successor, Warren Burger, resigned. Urofsky chose this period because the decisions of these two Courts marked one of the greatest expansions in the meaning of American liberties in our history. The central theme of this...
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This book is an important reference that provides the historical context and constitutional perspective of more than 1,000 of the most important Supreme Court cases. Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court offers an unparalleled history of the Supreme Court and its impact on American democracy and society. - Publisher.
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision striking down the "separate but equal" principle and outlawing segregated schools, Cushman (Director of Publications, Supreme Court Historical Society) and Urofsky (Chairmanof the Board of Editors, Journal of Supreme Court History) present a collection of retrospective articles on the history and impact of Brown vs. Board of Education. The papers primarily focus on the...