Unlikely Heroes: The Dramatic Story of the Southern Judges of the 5th
Bass, Jack. Unlikely Heroes: The Dramatic Story of the Southern Judges of the Fifth Circuit Who Translated the Supreme Court's Brown Decision Into a Revolution for Equality. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1981]. 352 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth over boards with gilt stamped spine, near fine in near fine dust jacket with Brodart. Foxing to edges. Internally clean. $25. * An authoritative legal history detailing the courageous judicial enforcement of civil rights in the American South during the 1950s and 1960s. Bass, an eminent journalist and historian, chronicles the pivotal role played by a small group of Republican and progressive Democratic judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, specifically Elbert Tuttle, John Minor Wisdom, John Brown, and Richard Rives. The narrative utilizes extensive personal interviews and internal court memoranda to analyze how these Southern jurists systematically dismantled Jim Crow segregation. The text details their landmark legal mechanisms that bypassed regional obstruction to desegregate schools, secure voting rights, and enforce the constitutional mandate of Brown v. Board of Education across the Deep South.
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