All Deliberate Speed PA

by Ogletree Jr.,Charles J.

• ISBN13: 9780393326864
• ISBN10: 0393326861
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the doctrine of "separatebut-equal" no longer had a place in American society. Finally, the nation's highest court had agreed that segregation was inherently unequal and that legalized racial inequality could no longer be tolerated. Fifty years later, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., confronts the complicated legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, telling his personal story of growing up as a "Brown Baby" against a vivid backdrop of historical figures-heroes and foes alike-including, among others, Martin Luther King, Jr., Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, Charles Houston, Anita Hill, and Clarence Thomas. In All Deliberate Speed, Ogletree examines the shocking ambivalence of the American judicial system toward education inequalities, the increasing legal challenges to affirmative action and how those challenges have brought the issue of reparations to the fore. All Deliberate Speed is a riveting personal history of the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and its sweeping effect on American society. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART I
The Significance of Brown	3	(12)
The Legacy of Segregation: What Brown Meant in Merced	15	(26)
Brown's Promise: Black Students at Stanford	41	(16)
Brown's Failure: Resistance in Boston	57	(22)
Brown's Challenge: Carrying the Torch	79	(18)
PART II
Life Before Brown	97	(14)
Defeating Jim Crow	111	(13)
Resistance to Brown	124	(11)
Marshall and King: Two Paths to Justice	135	(12)
PART III
Reversing the Brown Mandate: The Bakke Challenge	147	(20)
The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall	167	(16)
PART IV
The Rise of Clarence Thomas	183	(17)
Who's Getting Lynched?: Hill V. Thomas	200	(18)
Justice Thomas: A New Era in Race Matters	218	(21)
PART V
The Michigan Cases: Mixed Signals	239	(20)
PART VI
Meeting The Educational Challenges of the Twenty-First Century	259	(15)
Addressing the Racial Divide: Reparations	274	(26)
The Integration Ideal: Sobering Reflections	300	(10)
Conclusion	310	(7)
Afterword: The Post O'Connor Supereme Court: The Emergence of the Scalia Court?	317	(18)
Notes	335	(40)
Frequently Cited Cases	375	(2)
Index	377