Examines the desegregation experience, with a focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, through Parents Involved v. Seattle School District in 2007. Assesses desegregation in Delaware, one of the states involved in the original Brown litigation.
Contents
Foreword by the Hon. Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Robert L. Hayman Jr. and Leland Ware
Part I. The Context: Race and Segregation
1. Robert L. Hayman Jr.: A History of Race in Delaware: 1639–1950
2. Interview of the Honorable Collins Jacques Seitz Conducted by the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. and by David V. Stivison
3. Delaware Voices: Collins J. Seitz Jr.
4. Annette Woolard-Provine: Remembering Louis Redding
5. Juan Williams: Remembering Thurgood Marshall
6. Robert J. Cottrol: The Difference That Brown Made
7. Jack Greenberg: A Glass Half Full
Part II. The Experience: Education and Desegregation
8. Leland Ware: Educational Equity and Brown v. Board of Education:
Fifty Years of School Desegregation in Delaware
9. Orlando Camp and Ed Kee: Lost Opportunity: The Failure to Integrate Milford's Public Schools in 1954
10. Delaware Voices: Littleton Mitchell
11. An Interview with the Honorable Murray M. Schwartz
12. Roger L. Goldman: The Resegregation Decisions and the New Federalism
13. Delaware Voices: Jae Street
Part III. The Legacies: Desegregation and Resegregation
14. James T. Patterson: Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
15. Robert J. Lipkin: Haunted by Brown
16. Paul Finkelman: Civil Rights in Historical Context: In Defense of Brown
17 Jack M. Balkin: Brown, Social Movements, and Social Change
18 Nancy Levit: Race and Sex Segregation in Schools Fifty Years after Brown
19 Patricia J. Williams: Pre-White and Post-Black: The Aesthetics of Oppression
20 Jeffrey A. Raffel: Charter Schools in the Context of Brown: Panacea
or Faustian Bargaining?
21 Michele Fuetsch and Leland Ware: Race, Class, and Resegregation:
Delaware Schools Fifty Years after Brown
22 Robert L. Hayman Jr. and Leland Ware: The Geography of Discrimination:
The Seattle and Louisville Cases and the Legacy
of Brown v. Board of Education
Bibliographic Essay by David K. King
Contributors
Index
“In clear words, thorough research, and powerful arguments, Hayman and Ware—through their own voices and those of contributors, some of whom were the titans for justice—retell the road to Brown v. Board of Education. They do so through a deep exploration of Delaware’s untold story. Choosing Equality thus lays bare a northern state’s part in a personal, legal conversation for human dignity. Brown’s integration principle did not end this conversation. It continues today in the founding of charter schools and in Parents Involved in Community Schools. A truly important book, Choosing Equality is a must-read.”
—Reginald Leamon Robinson, Howard University School of Law
