Brown V. Board of Education

IPatterson shrewdly explores provocative issues that still swirl around "Brown v. Board of Education," including whether the decision touched off the modern civil rights movement and how useful court-ordered busing and affirmative action have been in removing racial segregation. 36 photos.

James T. Patterson won the Bancroft Prize in History for Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (OUP, 1996). Author of numerous books concerning modern American life, he is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University.

- Editor's Note
- Preface: Contesting the Color Line
- 1: Race and the Schools Before Brown
- 2: The Grass Roots and Struggling Lawyers
- 3: The Court Decides
- 4: Crossroads, 1954-55
- 5: Southern Whites Fight Back
- 6: Striving for Racial Balance in the 1960s
- 7: The Buger Court Surprises
- 8: Stalemates
- 9: Resegregation?
- 10: Legacies and Lessons
- Appendix I: Key Cases
- Appendix II: Tables and Figures
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Acknowledgements
- Index