Books
March, 1976
Richard Kluger's Simple Justice (Knopf) is a landmark book about a landmark event: the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. The Board of Education, which overthrew a century of malign neglect by ordering the desegregation of American schools on the ground that separate is inherently unequal. Kluger might have been content to describe the events surrounding Brown and its four related Supreme Court cases themselves; but to his great credit, he opted for more: a study of the entire history of r...
