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In what John Hope Franklin calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a "Brown baby" against a vivid pageant of historical characters that includes, among others, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Earl Warren, Anita Hill, Alan Bakke, and Clarence Thomas. A measured blend of personal memoir, exacting legal analysis, and brilliant insight, Ogletree's eyewitness account of the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education offers a unique vantage point from which to view five decades of race relations in America.
| Ch. 1 | The significance of Brown | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The legacy of segregation : what Brown meant in Merced | 15 |
| Ch. 3 | Brown's promise : black students at Stanford | 41 |
| Ch. 4 | Brown's failure : resistance in Boston | 57 |
| Ch. 5 | Brown's challenge : carrying the torch | 79 |
| Ch. 6 | Life before Brown | 97 |
| Ch. 7 | Defeating Jim Crow | 111 |
| Ch. 8 | Resistance to Brown | 124 |
| Ch. 9 | Marshall and king : two paths to justice | 135 |
| Ch. 10 | Reversing the Brown mandate : the Bakke challenge | 147 |
| Ch. 11 | The legacy of Thurgood Marshall | 167 |
| Ch. 12 | The rise of Clarence Thomas | 183 |
| Ch. 13 | Who's getting lynched? : Hill V. Thomas | 200 |
| Ch. 14 | Justice Thomas : a new era in race matters | 218 |
| Ch. 15 | The Michigan cases : mixed signals | 239 |
| Ch. 16 | Meeting the educational challenges of the twenty-first century | 259 |
| Ch. 17 | Addressing the racial divide : reparations | 274 |
| Ch. 18 | The integration ideal : sobering reflections | 300 |
| Afterword : the post O'Connor Supereme Court : the emergence of the Scalia Court? |
Anonymous
Posted May 27, 2004
Ogletree sets the record straight in this easy-to-read, fact-packed, account of the years and circumstances leading to the historically-relevant Brown v. Board of Education. Readers will understand what got the Country to the point of needing the decision, and both the positive and negative impacts of school desegregation. A must read!
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In what John Hope Franklin calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a "Brown baby" against a vivid pageant of historical characters that includes, among others, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Earl Warren, Anita Hill, Alan Bakke, and Clarence Thomas. A measured blend of personal memoir, exacting legal analysis, and brilliant insight, Ogletree's eyewitness account of the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education offers a unique ...