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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Milwaukee, Public Schools, and the Fight for America's Future | |
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| Segregation, Prosperity, and Protests: 1950s and 1960s | |
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| The Glory Days of 1957 | |
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| The 1950s: Milwaukee's Black Community Comes of Age | |
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| 1964: Freedom Schools Come to Milwaukee | |
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| Milwaukee Loves George Wallace | |
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| Milwaukee's Great Migration #1: Blacks Move from the South to the Inner Core | |
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| 1965: Direct Action Targets "Intact Busing" | |
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| 1967-68: Open Housing Moves to Center Stage | |
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| Desegregation, Deindustrialization, and Backlash: 1970s and 1980s | |
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| Brown and Milliken: The U.S. Supreme Court Advances and Retreats | |
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| January 19, 1976: The Court Rules-Milwaukee's Schools are Segregated | |
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| September 7, 1976: The Buses Roll and Desegregation Begins | |
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| 1981: Police Brutality Moves to Center Stage | |
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| Milwaukee's Great Migration #2: Whites Move to the Suburbs | |
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| The 1980s: The Rust Belt and Reaganomics | |
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| Desegregation: Forward and Backward in the 1980s | |
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| Latino Students: Moving Beyond Black and White | |
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| Money: The Root of all Solutions | |
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| Resegregation, Abandonment, and a New Era of Protest: 1990s and 2000s | |
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| 1990: Vouchers Pass, Abandonment Begins | |
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| Voucher Crossfire: Fighting for the Soul of Public Education | |
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| Multicultural Crossfire: Redefining the Public School Curriculum | |
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| 1993-95: White Voters Reject New Schools for Black Children, and Things Fall Apart | |
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| 1995: Vouchers for Religious Schools, Abandonment Advances | |
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| 1999: (Re)Segregation D�j� Vu-Neighborhood Schools and Open Enrollment | |
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| Milwaukee's Great Migration #3: Global Immigrants Make Milwaukee their Home | |
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| 2002-10: No Child Left Behind. Really? | |
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| 2011: The Heartland Rises Up, and a New Era of Protest Begins | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |