Article Index

• 250 Years of White Supremacy Through Law: How Did the Civil Rights Movement Challenge America’s Racial Hierarchy? (1945–1964)
• I. The War Ended, but Racial Hierarchy Remained
• II. Black Veterans Returned to a Nation That Still Denied Them Full Citizenship
• III. The Courts Began to Undermine Jim Crow
• IV. Brown v. Board of Education Challenged the Legal Logic of Segregation
• V. White Resistance Revealed the Violence Behind “Separate but Equal”
• VI. The Movement Took the Constitution Into the Streets
• VII. Federal Power Moved Slowly Toward Civil Rights Enforcement
• VIII. Other Communities Challenged Their Assigned Place in the Racial Hierarchy
• IX. The Early Shape of the Model Minority Myth
• X. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Marked a Legal Turning Point
• XI. Conclusion: The Movement Changed the Law, but Not the Whole Racial Order
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