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Informationen zum Autor Peter F. Lau is an independent scholar who earned his doctorate in history from Rutgers University. He has taught at Rutgers and the University of Rhode Island. Currently he is teaching history at Lincoln School in Providence, Rhode Island. Klappentext ""From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court "combines well-crafted accounts that are both top-down and bottom-up (sometimes within the same essay). This intellectually stimulating approach generates unanticipated synergies, new ways of understanding the persisting struggle for racial justice."--David L. Kirp, author of "Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education" Zusammenfassung Combines legal and historical analysis to address the implications of "Brown v. Board of Education!" showing that the resolution of racial segregation in schools transformed the lives of ordinary citizens in broader ways than has previously been ass Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Peter F. Lau 1 Part I: Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of “Separate, but Equal” / Blair L. M. Kelley 19 Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States / Vicki L. Ruiz 44 Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina / Raymond Gavins 68 “Liberating Lifescripts”: Price Edward County, Virginia, and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education / Kara Miles Turner 88 From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America / Peter F. Lau 105 Part II: Advocates, Judges, and the Making of Brown A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia / Larissa M. Smith 129 Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the NAACP’s Formative Decades, 1909-1934 / Patricia Sullivan 154 J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Postwar America / Christopher W. Schmidt 173 Brown v. Board of Education: Law of Politics? / Michael J. Klarman 198 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 / Tomiko Brown-Nagin 227 “The New Negro Ain’t Scared No More!”: Black Women’s Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown / Christina Greene 245 The Rural-Urban Matrix in the 1950s South: Rethinking Racial Struggles in Memphis / Laurie B. Green 270 New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration / Madeleine E. Lopez 300 Part IV: Life, Law, and Culture in Post-Brown America “Stretching Out”: Living and Remembering Brown , 1945-1970 / Waldo E. Martin Jr. 321 The Supreme Court’s Two Principles of Equality, From Brown to 2003 / Mark V. Tushnet 340 Brown v. Board of Education and its Impact on Black Education in America / Davison M. Douglas 361 Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory / Peter F. Lau 383 Bibliography 387 Notes on the Contributors 391 Index 395...
