From Grassroots
to Supreme Court

From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court:
Explorations of Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Peter F. Lau, ed.,
Duke University Press, Forthcoming 2004

1 Introduction

Part 1: Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots

Chapter 1: Blair L. M. Kelley, Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of "Separate, But Equal"

Chapter 2: Vicki L. Ruiz, Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the U.S. West

Chapter 3: Raymond Gavins, Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina

Chapter 4: Kara Miles Turner, "Liberating Lifescripts": Prince Edward County, Virginia and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education

Chapter 5: Peter F. Lau, From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America

Part 2: Advocates, Judges and the Making of Brown

Chapter 6: Larissa M. Smith, A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia

Chapter 7: Patricia Sullivan, Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the NAACP's Formative Decades, 1909-1934

Chapter 8: Christopher Schmidt, J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Post World War II America

Chapter 9: Michael J. Klarman, Brown v. Board of Education: Law or Politics?

Part 3: Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots

Chapter 10: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, After the Split: Local Branch Decline as a Factor in the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta

Chapter 11: Christina Greene, "… The New Negro Ain't Scared No More!": Black Women's Activism in North Carolina During the Brown Years

Chapter 12: Laurie B. Green, The Rural-Urban Two-Way Road: Brown v. Board of Education and the &nbspMemphis Freedom Movement

Chapter 13: Madeleine E. Lopez, New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration

Part 4: Life, Law, and Culture in post-Brown America

Chapter 14: Waldo E. Martin, Jr., "STRETCHING OUT": Living and Remembering Brown, 1945-1970

Chapter 15: Mark V. Tushnet, The Supreme Court's Two Principles of Equality: From Brown to 2003

Chapter 16: Davison M. Douglas, Brown v. Board of Education and Its Impact on Minority Education in America

Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory