Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Peter F. Lau 1
Part I: Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots
Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of “Separate, but Equal” / Blair L. M. Kelley 19
Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States / Vicki L. Ruiz 44
Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina / Raymond Gavins 68
“Liberating Lifescripts”: Price Edward County, Virginia, and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education / Kara Miles Turner 88
From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America / Peter F. Lau 105
Part II: Advocates, Judges, and the Making of Brown
A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia / Larissa M. Smith 129
Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the NAACP’s Formative Decades, 1909-1934 / Patricia Sullivan 154
J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Postwar America / Christopher W. Schmidt 173
Brown v. Board of Education: Law of Politics? / Michael J. Klarman 198
Part III: Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots
The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the NAACP’s Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta / Tomiko Brown-Nagin 227
“The New Negro Ain’t Scared No More!”: Black Women’s Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown / Christina Greene 245
The Rural-Urban Matrix in the 1950s South: Rethinking Racial Struggles in Memphis / Laurie B. Green 270
New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration / Madeleine E. Lopez 300
Part IV: Life, Law, and Culture in Post-Brown America
“Stretching Out”: Living and Remembering Brown , 1945-1970 / Waldo E. Martin Jr. 321
The Supreme Court’s Two Principles of Equality, From Brown to 2003 / Mark V. Tushnet 340
Brown v. Board of Education and its Impact on Black Education in America / Davison M. Douglas 361
Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory / Peter F. Lau 383
Bibliography 387
Notes on the Contributors 391
Index 395
