All deliberate speed : reflections on the first half century of Brown v. Board of Education / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Author: Ogletree, Charles J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2004.
ISBN: 0393058972 (hardcover) :
Description: xv, 365 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject(s): Ogletree, Charles J.
Race discrimination Law and legislation United States History.
Civil rights movements United States History.
African American lawyers Biography.
Contents: The significance of Brown -- The legacy of segregation : what Brown meant in Merced -- Brown's promise : Black students at Stanford -- Brown's failure : resistance in Boston -- Brown's challenge : carrying the torch -- Life before Brown -- Defeating Jim Crow -- Resistance to Brown -- Marshall and King : two paths to justice -- Reversing the Brown mandate : the Bakke challenge -- The legacy of Thurgood Marshall -- The rise of Clarence Thomas -- Who's getting lynched? : Hill v. Thomas -- Justice Thomas : a new era in race matters -- The Michigan cases : mixed signals -- Meeting the educational challenges of the twenty-first century -- Addressing the racial divide : reparations -- The integration ideal : sobering reflections.
