From The Grassroots To The Supreme Court

by Lau, Peter F.

• ISBN13: 9780822334750
• ISBN10: 0822334755
• Format: Hardcover
• 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
Introduction	1	(18)
Peter F. Lau
PART I Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots
Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of ``Separate, but Equal''	19	(25)
Blair L. M. Kelley
Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States	44	(24)
Vicki L. Ruiz
Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina	68	(20)
Raymond Gavins
``Liberating Lifescripts'': Prince Edward County, Virginia, and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education	88	(17)
Kara Miles Turner
From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America	105	(24)
Peter F. Lau
PART II Advocates, Judges, and the Making of Brown
A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia	129	(25)
Larissa M. Smith
Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the NAACP's Formative Decades, 1909--1934	154	(19)
Patricia Sullivan
J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Postwar America	173	(25)
Christopher W. Schmidt
Brown v. Board of Education: Law or Politics?	198	(29)
Michael J. Klarman
PART III Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots
The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the NAACP's Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta	227	(18)
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
``The New Negro Ain't Scared No More!'': Black Women's Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown	245	(25)
Christina Greene
The Rural-Urban Matrix in the 1950s South: Rethinking Racial Justice Struggles in Memphis	270	(30)
Laurie B. Green
New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration	300	(21)
Madeleine E. Lopez
PART IV Life, Law, and Culture in Post-Brown America
``Stretching Out'': Living and Remembering Brown, 1945--1970	321	(19)
Waldo E. Martin Jr.
The Supreme Court's Two Principles of Equality: From Brown to 2003	340	(21)
Mark V. Tushnet
Brown v. Board of Education and Its Impact on Black Education in America	361	(22)
Davison M. Douglas
Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory	383	(4)
Peter F. Lau
Bibliography	387	(4)
Notes on the Contributors	391	(4)
Index	395