All Deliberate Speed
Subtitle: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: April 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780393058970
First sentence: On May 17, 1954, an otherwise uneventful Monday afternoon, fifteen months into Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court, issued a historic ruling that he and his colleagues hoped would irrevocably change the social fabric of the United States.