Reddit reviews Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

If anyone is interested in some of the background and judicial politics behind Brown v. Board of Education, I highly recommend Simple Justice by Richard Kluger.

I was required to read it for one of my legal history courses. BUT, it reads like a novel. It requires very little background knowledge and is just simply a great book. It's a book I'll keep next to my Harry Potter and Game of Thrones books.

This is a decent online overview.

For books, I'd point you first toward Simple Justice and Brown v. Board of Education. Questia has a thorough selection of titles, but I haven't read all of them, so couldn't make a significant recommendation there. The two I linked specifically should be available online, so if you have a kindle program on your computer, you're set.

The Brown decision is admittedly not a case I know as well as others (I know a lot more about Lemon v. Kurtzman and Pierce v. Society of Sisters), but those two books linked are at least good overviews (as well as ones my dad used when he taught the case, for many years). If I can get a copy of his syllabus, I could probably get more resources for you, since he knows far more about Brown than I do.

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality rocked my world. Twenty years later, it remains one of the best books I've ever read.

I searched the name of the book you recommended but couldn't find it. Do you know the authors name?

Wait are those 3 different books?

Edit: Yea I am dumb they are different books. Here they are on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Struggle/dp/1400030617

https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Lawyer-Mentoring-Paperback/dp/0465016332

https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Action-Jonathan-Harr/dp/0679772677

https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Inside-Secret-World-Supreme/dp/1400096790