Ebook We Face the Dawn Oliver Hill Spottswood Robinson and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow Carter G Woodson Institute Series Margaret Edds 9780813942643 Books

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The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping story of how the South's most significant grassroots legal team challenged the barriers of racial segregation in mid-century America.

Virginians Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson initiated and argued one of the five cases that combined into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, but their influence extends far beyond that momentous ruling. They were part of a small brotherhood, headed by social-justice pioneer Thurgood Marshall and united largely through the Howard Law School, who conceived and executed the NAACP’s assault on racial segregation in education, transportation, housing, and voting. Hill and Robinson’s work served as a model for southern states and an essential underpinning for Brown. When the Virginia General Assembly retaliated with laws designed to disbar the two lawyers and discredit the NAACP, they defiantly carried the fight to the United States Supreme Court and won.

At a time when numerous schools have resegregated and the prospects of many minority children appear bleak, Hill and Robinson’s remarkably effective campaign against various forms of racial segregation can inspire a new generation to embrace educational opportunity as the birthright of every American child.


Ebook We Face the Dawn Oliver Hill Spottswood Robinson and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow Carter G Woodson Institute Series Margaret Edds 9780813942643 Books


"Is this a history book? A civil rights book? A biography of Hill and Robinson? An exploration of culture, oppression, and the call to freedom? An inspiration to keep working for positive change despite all odds? A call to action today?
YES! Margaret Edds invites readers to join her on on this fully engaging exploration of the personalities of two complicated men who changed the the world. Significant research (footnotes to prove it!) grounds the fascinating individual stories of Hill and Robinson in the realities of the larger story of what it meant (means) to be black in America. Yet, this is more than a history book about a period when a pervasive 'whites only' mentality justified barriers to education, jobs, transportation (etc. etc.) and tolerated lynchings. We Face the Dawn is one of those rare books that successfully offers the reader both historical facts gleaned from significant research and an authentic depiction of the psychological depth and humanness of the main characters. Edds never lectures and her writing doesn't come from a soapbox. Her historical analysis of the complexities, atrocities and breakthroughs on the road to equal rights hopefully reminds readers that this is not the story of a distant past. It is the history of many of us who lived through it. Not that long ago.....It is a story that continues to unfold. Especially now. Should be required reading in every high school and college history class! Perfect catalyst for community discussion groups too. We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series)"

Product details

  • Series Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
  • Paperback 424 pages
  • Publisher University of Virginia Press; Reprint edition (February 5, 2019)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10 0813942640

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