Brown v. Board of Education at fifty : a rhetorical perspective / edited by Clarke Rountree.

Variant title Brown versus Board of Education at fifty
Contents Revisiting the case of Plessy v. Ferguson / Marouf Hasian, Jr. -- Dissent as prophecy : Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson as the religious rhetoric of law / Daniel Mangis -- Setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education : The NAACP's litigation campaign against the "separate but equal" doctrine / Clarke Rountree -- From natural to cultural inferiority : the symbolic reconstruction of white supremacy in Brown v. Board of Education / David Droge -- The rhetoric of Virginia's massive resistance movement / Ann E. Burnette -- The Supreme Court's rhetoric of legitimization / Ann M. Gill.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-188) and index.
LCCN 2004012557
ISBN0739108549 (cloth : alk. paper)