From The Grassroots To The Supreme Court

by Lau, Peter F.

• ISBN13: 9780822334491
• ISBN10: 0822334496
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This book does a wonderful job of bringing history to life by revealing the human stories behind the Supreme Court's famous decision. Each contribution offers a rich and textured picture of how "Brown" touched individual lives, prompting hope, fear, courage, and despair."--Rachel F. Moran, author of "Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
PETER F. LAU
Introduction	1	(18)
PART I Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots
BLAIR L.M. KELLEY
Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of "Separate, but Equal"	19	(25)
VICKI L. RUIZ
Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States	44	(24)
RAYMOND GAVINS
Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina	68	(20)
KARA MILES TURNER
"Liberating Lifescripts": Prince Edward County, Virginia, and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education	88	(41)
PETER F. LAU
From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America 105
PART II Advocates, Judges, and the Making of Brown
LARISSA M. SMITH
A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia	129	(25)
PATRICIA SULLIVAN
Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the NAACP'S Formative Decades, 1909-1934	154	(19)
CHRISTOPHER W. SCHMIDT
J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Postwar America	173	(25)
MICHAEL J. KLARMAN
Brown v. Board of Education: Law or Politics?	198	(29)
PART III Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots
TOMIKO BROWN-NAGIN
The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the NAACP'S Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta	227	(18)
CHRISTINA GREENE
"The New Negro Ain't Scared No More!": Black Women's Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown	245	(25)
LAURIE B. GREEN
The Rural-Urban Matrix in the 1950's South: Rethinking Racial Justice Struggles in Memphis	270	(30)
MADELEINE E. LÓPEZ
New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration	300	(21)
PART IV Life, Law, and Culture in Post-Brown America
WALDO E. MARTIN JR.
"Stretching Out": Living and Remembering Brown, 1945-1970	321	(19)
MARK V. TUSHNET
The Supreme Court's Two Principles of Equality: From Brown to 2003	340	(21)
DAVISON M. DOUGLAS
Brown v. Board of Education and Its Impact on Black Education in America	361	(22)
PETER P. LAU
Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory	383	(4)
Bibliography	387	(4)
Notes on the Contributors	391	(4)
Index	395