Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Lawyering in the Civil Rights Era 1
5. Prologue: The Long Night of Jim Crow 14
6. 1. The Road to Sweatt v. Painter 25
7. 2. Brown v. Board of Education 52
8. 3. Making the Case for Segregation 85
9. 4. They Had a Dream 122
10. 5. Whose Victory? Whose Defeat? 151
11. 6. Legal Academics and Civil Rights Lawyering 167
12. Conclusion: Politics or Law? Legacies of Lawyering in the Civil Rights Era 189
13. Index 197