Simple Justice

{{Short description|Book by Richard Kluger}}

{{italic title|force=true}}{{Infobox book

| name = Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

| image = Simple Justice.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Richard Kluger

| country = United States

| genre = Legal history

| published = 1975 (Alfred A. Knopf)

| isbn = 0-394-47289-6

| congress = KF4155 .K55 1976

| dewey = 344/.73/0798

| oclc = 1602027

| pages = 823 (1st ed.)

}}

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, written by Richard Kluger and published by Alfred A. Knopf in two volumes 1975 and in a single-volume edition in 1976,{{cite book |last=Kluger |first=Richard |title=Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |volume=1 |date=1975 |url=https://archive.org/details/simplejustice0000unse |oclc=6978845}}{{cite book |last=Kluger |first=Richard |title=Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |date=1976 |url=https://archive.org/details/simplejusticehi000klug |isbn=0-394-47289-6 |oclc=1602027}} was a finalist for the 1977 National Book Award in the History category.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/books/simple-justice/|title=Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality|website=National Book Awards|access-date=2022-02-08}} It is a detailed history of the litigation leading up to the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and its aftermath. The book has been called "a classic of legal history."{{Cite web|url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9775|title=A Classic and Its Progeny|last=Schmidt|first=Christopher|date=September 2004|website=H-Net|access-date=2016-08-01}} On January 18, 1993, a documentary based on the book was broadcast as an episode of the American Experience series during the fifth season.{{Cite episode |title=Simple Justice |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108139/ |access-date=2016-08-02 |series=American Experience |first=Helaine |last=Head |network=PBS |date=January 18, 1993 |season=5 |number=8}} A revised and expanded edition was published in 2004.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkoozCfOklcC|title=Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality|last=Kluger|first=Richard|date=2004|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|isbn=9780307546081|language=en}}