Social Scientists for Social Justice : Making the Case Against Segregation, Hardcover by Jackson, John P., Jr., ISBN 0814742661, ISBN-13 9780814742662, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

In the 1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren cited social-scientific evidence as one basis of the Supreme Court's opinion. In the years following, the role of the social scientists in the legal battles of the Civil Rights era has been alternately criticized as not objective or supported as bringing scholarly insight to the task of social engineering. Jackson (communication, U. of Colorado) examines the social and intellectual atmosphere that gave rise to the actions of these scholars, attempting to answer three questions of how social scientists came to study race relations and prejudice, how they defined their roles as experts, and how they attempted to maintain roles of objectivity in the highly adversarial process of litigation campaigns. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()