Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots
6. Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of ‘‘Separate, but Equal’’ 19
7. Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States 44
8. Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina 68
9. ‘‘Liberating Lifescripts’’: Prince Edward County, Virginia, and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education 88
10. From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America 105
11. Part II Advocates, Judges, and the Making of Brown
12. A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the naacp in Virginia 129
13. Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the naacp’s Formative Decades, 1909–1934 154
14. J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Postwar America 173
15. Brown v. Board of Education: Law or Politics? 198
16. Part III Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots
17. The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the naacp’s Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta 227
18. ‘‘The New Negro Ain’t Scared No More!’’: Black Women’s Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown 245
19. The Rural-Urban Matrix in the 1950s South: Rethinking Racial Justice Struggles in Memphis 270
20. New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration 300
21. Part IV Life, Law, and Culture in Post-Brown America
22. ‘‘Stretching Out’’: Living and Remembering Brown, 1945–1970 321
23. The Supreme Court’s Two Principles of Equality: From Brown to 2003 340
24. Brown v. Board of Education and Its Impact on Black Education in America 361
25. Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory 383
26. Bibliography 387
27. Notes on the Contributors 391
28. Index 395