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"With All Deliberate Speed:" The Fifth Circuit Court District Judges and School Desegregation

During the years following Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. district courts assumed the burden of implementing that decision across the country. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of the district court judges in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in that effort. The primary sources used are the district, appellate and Supreme Court opinions. This study concludes that many background variables used to study judicial behaviour are ineffective in this geographical area because of the homogeneity of the judges' backgrounds. But, as indicated by the Johnson appointments, a president can select judges that have a particular attitude toward an issue such as integration, if he has the desire and the political acumen to do so.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504633
Date08 1900
CreatorsBodnar, John A.
ContributorsSeligmann, Gustav L., Johnston, Richard E., Painter, William E.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 85 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Bodnar, John A., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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