Brown v. Board of Education
Subtitle: its impact on public education, 1954-2004
By: introduction by Juan Williams ; edited by Dara N. Byrne
Contributors: Byrne, Dara N; Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund; Williams, Juan
Series: African American Studies
Publisher: Word For Word Pub. Co.; Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Brown, Oliver, -- 1918- -- Trials, litigation, etc; Topeka (Kan.). -- Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc; Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
Notes: "Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--T.p. verso

Cover photograph: "The Trouble We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell."

Includes bibliographical references

King copy given by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, Inc.
Table of contents: title: The ruling that changed America / Juan Williams; title: I: Its impact on law; title: 1. Crumbs from the table of plenty: Brown and the ongoing struggle from educational equity in American schools / Gloria J. Browne-Marshall; title: 2. Implications of the 1993 Brown III case on Topeka public schools / Judith Lynne McConnell, Blythe Hinitz & Gloria A. Dye; title: 3. South Carolina: winning the battle over De Jure segregation, losing the war over De Facto segregation / Jackie R. Booker; title: 4. Brown and gender discrimination / Elizabeth Davenport; title: The jurisprudential impact of Brown v. Board of education / Kevin H. Smith; title: II: Its impact on historically black colleges and universities; title: 6. Trapped in the back of the bus: black colleges, the courts and desegregation rulings / Saran Donahoo & Denise O. Green; title: 7. An examination of the struggle for equity in higher education: litigation in the Ayers v. Fordice case in Mississippi / Andrew Ann Dinkins Lee; title: 8. The impact of Brown v. Board of education on black colleges: the tragedy of a dream deferred / Amiri Yasin Al-Hadid; title: 9. The impact of the Brown decision on public HBCUs / Mickey L. Burnim; title: 10. The Brown decision in local context: race and public education in Norfolk, Virginia / Jeffrey Lynn Littlejohn; title: 11. Leveling the playing field: the challenge of preparing globally competent African-American college graduates / Roberta J. Wilburn