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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: Shades of Brown: Black Freedom, White Supremacy, and the Law | |
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Historical Backdrop: The Constitution, the Law, and Fighting Jim Crow | |
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The Evolution of the NAACP Legal Campaign Against Jim Crow | |
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The NAACP's Legal Strategy Challenged | |
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The Growing Anti-Racist Offensive: An American Dilemma Confronts World War II | |
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Continuity and Change in the Legal Struggle: Equality, Equalization, and Direct Attack | |
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Politics, Social Change, and Decision-Making within the Supreme Court: The Crafting of Brown | |
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The Brown Decision: Immediate Responses and Immediate Consequences | |
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Roberts v. City of Boston (1849) | |
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A Petition on Behalf of Black Inclusion in the Boston Common Schools, October 17, 1787 | |
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A Black Teacher's Travail, 1850s Fugitive Slave Poster, 1851 | |
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Brief for Public School Integration, 1849 | |
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Opinion of the Court in Roberts v. City of Boston, 1849 | |
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
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"Civil Rights: The Outrage of the Supreme Court of the United States upon the Black Man," 1889 | |
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"The Case Stated," 1895 | |
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"We Wear the Mask," 1895 | |
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Majority Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
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Dissenting Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
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Sweatt v. Painter (1950) and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950) | |
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"Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916-1918," 1919 | |
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"I, Too," 1926 | |
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"Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?" 1935 | |
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From An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, 1944 | |
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The Petitioner's Brief in Sweatt v. Painter, 1950 | |
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Opinion of the Court in Sweatt v. Painter, 1950 | |
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Opinion of the Court in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 1950 | |
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Brown v. Board of Education (1952-55) | |
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Mississippi Voter Registration Form, 1955 | |
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The Lower Court Round: Preliminary Deliberations | |
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Decision in Briggs v. Elliott, 1951 | |
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Dissent in Briggs v. Elliott, 1951 | |
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The Supreme Court Rounds: The Making of Brown I and Brown II | |
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Setting the Stage | |
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Appellants' Brief, 1952 | |
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"The Effects of Segregation and the Consequences of Desegregation: A Social Science Statement," Appendix to Appellants' Brief | |
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Appellees' Brief, 1952 | |
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Reargument on Original Intent and Possible Relief | |
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The Supreme Court's Order: The Questions, 1953 | |
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Appellants' Brief, 1953 | |
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Appellees' Brief (1953) | |
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Federal Friend-of-the-Court Brief, 1953 | |
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Opinion of the Court in Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1954 | |
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Reargument on Remedy--Immediate or Gradual? | |
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Appellants' Brief, 1954 | |
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Appellees' Brief, 1954 | |
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Appellants' Reply Brief, 1954 | |
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Ruling on Relief, May 31, 1955 | |
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Popular Response to Brown | |
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Newspaper Editorials | |
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"All God's Chillun," Times (New York), May 18, 1954 The Decision of A Century, Daily World (Atlanta), May 18, 1954 | |
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Will Stun Communists, Courier (Pittsburgh), May 18, 1954 | |
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End of Dual Society, Defender (Chicago), May 18, 1954 | |
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Emancipation, Post and Times Herald (Washington, D.C.), May 18, 1954 | |
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The Supreme Court Has Given Us Time, Constitution (Atlanta) May 18, 1954 | |
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Bloodstains on White Marble Steps, Daily News (Jackson, Miss.), May 18, 1954 | |
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The Pattern of the Future, Gazette (Arkansas), May 18, 1954 | |
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Equality Redefined, Herald (Boston), May 18, 1954 | |
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The Segregation Decision, Times (Los Angeles), May 19, 1954 | |
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"Violates" Way of Life, Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia, May 18, 1954 | |
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Adjustment Held Difficult, Mississippian, University of Mississippi, May 18, 1954 | |
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Letters to Editors | |
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Times (New York), May 31, 1954 | |
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Sentinel (Orlando), August 11, 1955 | |
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Political Cartoons | |
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Chronicle (San Francisco), May 18, 1954 | |
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Christian Science Monitor (Boston), May 22, 1954 | |
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Democrat (Arkansas), May 22, 1954 | |
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Tennessean (Nashville), May 22, 1954 | |
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Afro-American (Richmond), May 22, 1954 | |
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Defender (Chicago), June 12, 1954 | |
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White Backlash | |
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The Southern Manifesto, March 12, 1956 | |
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White Citizen's Council Notice | |
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National Progress Report: Realizing Integrated Schools | |
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Decade of Desegregation, Times (New York), May 17, 1964 | |
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Two Decades Later, Times (New York), May 17, 1974 | |
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The Enduring Promise of Brown, Times (New York), May 17, 1984 | |
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Forty Years and Still Struggling, Times (New York), May 18, 1994 | |
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Epilogue: The Legacy of Brown | |
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Appendices | |
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Chronology of Events Related to Brown v. Board of Education | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Index | |