Product Description: In December 1952, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a landmark case that would forever change the countrys race relations. This book covers the events leading up to Brown v. Board of Education and the proceedings of the case itself...read more

Product Description: Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of the Brown decision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights...read more

Product Description: In February 1954, President Eisenhower invited Chief Justice Warren to dinner at the White House. Among the guests were well-known opponents of school desegregation. During that evening, Eisenhower commented to Warren that "law and force cannot change a man's heart...read more

Details the historical and cultural roots of, the various litigations and court decisions leading to, and the implications of the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown decision.

Product Description: This is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states—Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin—dealt with the Court's mandate to desegregate "with all deliberate speed"? The process followed many diverse paths...read more

Product Description: This is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states—Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin—dealt with the Court’s mandate to desegregate “with all deliberate speed...read more

Looks at continuing repercussions of Brown v. Board of Education and, despite the original intentions, its frequently negative impact on the educational needs of African-American children.

Product Description: This commermorative book contains insightful essays reflecting on the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown decision.

Presents retrospective articles on the history and impact of Brown vs. Board of Education, focusing on the constitutional and legal facets of the case and recalling events before and after the decision.

An expanded edition of the classic study details the historical and cultural roots of, the various litigations and court decisions leading to, and the implications of the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown decision. Simultaneous. 10,000 first printing.

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An award-winning legal historian and author of A People's History of the Supreme Court explores the long legacy of segregation in America, showing readers how the famous Brown v. Board of Education decision broke the back of Jim Crow but was quickly replaced by another form of segregation. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Describes the 1954 Supreme Court case that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in American public schools and its long-term influence on American education, race relations, and the Civil Rights Movement.

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Product Description: Compelling and engaging, this book analyzes whether or not African American students and administrators have reaped the benefits of desegregation.

An exploration of the case of Brown v. Board of Education, involving civil rights giants, Thurgood Marshall and the leaders of the NAACP, who fought for an end to all segregation in education. It discusses the internal working of the High Court and the nature of constitutional interpretation.

In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on all passenger railways within the state of Louisiana. In this book, Lofgren traces the roots of this landmark case in the post-Civil War South and pinpoints its moorings in the era's constitutional, legal, and intellectual doctrines. Set against a backdrop of social flux wherein scientists and social scientists were proclaiming black racial inferiority and lower courts were embracing separate-but-equal in ordinary law suits, the ruling readily became law of the land. Within this context, a group of New Orleans blacks launched a judicial challenge to Louisiana's Separate Car Law, and carried the case to the Supreme Court, where the resulting opinions by Justices Henry Billings Brown and John Marshall Harlan pitted legal doctrines and "expert" opinion about race against the idea of a color-blind Constitution. Lasting over half a century, the Plessy decision was overturned in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Topeka School Board--a case whose reasoning was based on the eloquent dissent by Justices Brown and Harlan. A brilliant look at the intellectual premises that shaped this important episode in the history of law and race in America, The Plessy Case probes into the dynamics of an issue that still poses troubling questions about racial classification and citizenship in the continuum of legal change.