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Book Title: What Brown V Board Of Education Should Have Said: The Natio...
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Jack M. Balkin
Publication Name: What Brown V. Board of Education Should Have Said : The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Publisher: NY University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 257 Pages
