Jeffrey L Littlejohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey L Littlejohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey L |
| FAMILY NAME | Littlejohn |
| SIGNATURE | LITTLEJOHN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rand Quinn. Class Action
Following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), San Francisco, California, served as one of the first large cities outside the South to face court-ordered school desegregation. Conflict over race and schooling was not new in San Francisco, however. As Rand Quinn explains in his recent book, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools, the city’s residents had struggled to address racial issu…
In the Best American Tradition of Freedom, We Defy You”
The history of the Civil Rights Movement has long centered on victories won in the Deep South between 1954 and 1965. As inspiring as this narrative may be, it overemphasizes the effectiveness of organizations like the NAACP and downplays more radical, local efforts that often took place in the border states. This article offers a counternarrative to the traditional story. It explores the efforts of three Virginia attorneys—Joseph Jordan, Edward D…
Racial Taxation
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), dozens of segregationists complained to the members of the Court that the ruling violated white people's rights as taxpaying citizens. One man from Georgia claimed that African Americans in the South were “living off ‘the fat of the land’” and “doing wonderfully well, being educated at the expense of ... white people” (p. 89). Likewise, a white woman from …
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
In September 1935, Lloyd Gaines, a 24-year-old African American resident of St. Louis, Missouri, applied for admission to the University of Missouri Law School. Although Gaines had been valedictorian at his high school and an honors graduate at Lincoln University, his application to the state’s flagship legal program was denied because he was black. In fact, Missouri offered no graduate or professional training to any of its black citizens. Inste…
Sarah Caroline Thuesen. Greater than Equal
In her new book, historian Sarah Caroline Thuesen offers a meticulously researched and elegantly written examination of the African American struggle for educational equality in North Carolina. Drawing inspiration from previous works by James D. Anderson, Vanessa Siddle Walker, and David S. Cecelski, Thuesen complicates our understanding of black aspirations and white authority during the Jim Crow era. In particular, she shows how black activists…
Between North and South
In this skillfully written, exhaustively researched examination of school desegregation in Delaware, the historian Brett Gadsden chronicles the role that America's first state played in the struggle for educational equality. Beginning in 1939 with the story of Ira Edwards, a black Wilmington resident who sought admission to the all-white University of Delaware, Gadsden shows how grassroots activists worked in concert with the National Association…
Survey of the Limba People of Northern Sierra Leone. By R. H. Finnegan. London
Racial Taxation
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), dozens of segregationists complained to the members of the Court that the ruling violated white people's rights as taxpaying citizens. One man from Georgia claimed that African Americans in the South were “living off ‘the fat of the land’” and “doing wonderfully well, being educated at the expense of ... white people” (p. 89). Likewise, a white woman from …
Survey of the Limba People of Northern Sierra Leone. By R. H. Finnegan. London
Between North and South
In this skillfully written, exhaustively researched examination of school desegregation in Delaware, the historian Brett Gadsden chronicles the role that America's first state played in the struggle for educational equality. Beginning in 1939 with the story of Ira Edwards, a black Wilmington resident who sought admission to the all-white University of Delaware, Gadsden shows how grassroots activists worked in concert with the National Association…
Sarah Caroline Thuesen. Greater than Equal
In her new book, historian Sarah Caroline Thuesen offers a meticulously researched and elegantly written examination of the African American struggle for educational equality in North Carolina. Drawing inspiration from previous works by James D. Anderson, Vanessa Siddle Walker, and David S. Cecelski, Thuesen complicates our understanding of black aspirations and white authority during the Jim Crow era. In particular, she shows how black activists…
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
In September 1935, Lloyd Gaines, a 24-year-old African American resident of St. Louis, Missouri, applied for admission to the University of Missouri Law School. Although Gaines had been valedictorian at his high school and an honors graduate at Lincoln University, his application to the state’s flagship legal program was denied because he was black. In fact, Missouri offered no graduate or professional training to any of its black citizens. Inste…
Racial Taxation
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), dozens of segregationists complained to the members of the Court that the ruling violated white people's rights as taxpaying citizens. One man from Georgia claimed that African Americans in the South were “living off ‘the fat of the land’” and “doing wonderfully well, being educated at the expense of ... white people” (p. 89). Likewise, a white woman from …
In the Best American Tradition of Freedom, We Defy You”
The history of the Civil Rights Movement has long centered on victories won in the Deep South between 1954 and 1965. As inspiring as this narrative may be, it overemphasizes the effectiveness of organizations like the NAACP and downplays more radical, local efforts that often took place in the border states. This article offers a counternarrative to the traditional story. It explores the efforts of three Virginia attorneys—Joseph Jordan, Edward D…
Rand Quinn. Class Action
Following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), San Francisco, California, served as one of the first large cities outside the South to face court-ordered school desegregation. Conflict over race and schooling was not new in San Francisco, however. As Rand Quinn explains in his recent book, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools, the city’s residents had struggled to address racial issu…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Supreme court (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works)