All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education"An effective blend of memoir, history and legal analysis."—Christopher Benson, Washington Post Book World 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. |
Contents
BLACK STUDENTS AT STANFORD | |
RESISTANCE IN BOSTON | |
CARRYING THE TORCH | |
LIFE BEFORE BROWN | |
DEFEATING JIM CROW | |
RESISTANCE TO BROWN | |
PART IV | |
HILL V THOMAS | |
A NEW ERA IN RACE MATTERS | |
MIXED SIGNALS | |
PART VI | |
REPARATIONS | |
SOBERING REFLECTIONS | |
Frequently Cited Cases | |
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