Remembering Brown at Fifty

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Orville Vernon Burton and David O'Brien; Section I: Brown: Its History and Legacy; 1. Darlene Clark Hine, The Briggs v. Elliott Legacy: Black Culture, Consciousness, and Community before Brown, 1930-1954; 2. George Lipsitz, Getting Around Brown: The Social Warrant of the New Racism; 3. Margaret L. Andersen, From Brown to Grutter: The Diverse Beneficiaries of Brown v. Board of Education; 4. Laughlin McDonald, Beyond School Desegregation: The Impact of Brown; 5. Jason Chambers, ''A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste'': The Advertising Council, the United Negro College Fund, and Educational Access for African Americans; 6. Joe R. Feagin and Bernice McNair Barnett, Success and Failure: How Systematic Racism Trumped the Brown v. Board of Education Decision; 7. Lani Guinier, From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Divergence Dilemma; Section II: Brown and Lived Experience; 8. Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Briggs: South Carolina's Bold Step That Led to Brown; 9. Ophelia De Laine Gona, About Integration: In Memory of the Reverend J. A. De Laine; 10. John Hope Franklin, My Life and Times with Thurgood Marshall; 11. Constance Curry, The Intolerable Burden; 12. James Onderdonk, The Freedom Riders: Two Personal Perspectives; 13. Ed Blankenheim, Looking Back at the Freedom Riders; 14. Kal Alston, The Middle Generation after Brown; Section III: The Arts and Brown; 15. Sekou Sundiata, Why Colored Faces in High Places Just Won't Do; 16. John Jennings, The Chance Project; 17. Ralph Lemon, What Was Always There; 18. Carrie Mae Weems and David O'Brien, Art and Integration: An Interview with Carrie Mae Weems; 19. David O'Brien, Social Studies: Eight Artists Address Brown; Section IV: Illinois and Brown; 20. Kathryn H. Anthony and Nicholas Watkins, A Legacy of Firsts: African Americans in Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 21. Nathaniel Banks, Reflections on the Brown Commemoration from a Champaign Native; 22. Joy Ann Williamson Lott, Reform in the Black Power Era; 23. Richard Herman, Lest We Forget; 24. James W. Loewen, Enforcing Brown in Sundown Towns; Section V: Public Intellectuals and Brown and Its Legacy; 25. Julian Bond, Civil Rights; Now and Then; 26. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Reflections of America's Achievement Gap: A Fifty-Year Perspective; 27. Chris Benson, Just Because of the Color of His Skin: The 1955 Lynching of Emmett Till; 28. Juan Williams and Christopher Teal, Thurgood Marshall's Vision; Epilogue; Mary L. Dudziak, Brown's Global Impact; Notes on Contributors; Index

''A valuable book that serves as both a fitting tribute and a careful examination of the Brown v. Board of Education decision after a half century. The touching and moving recollections help us understand the human impact the Brown case had on the 'ordinary' folks.'' William C. Hine, coauthor of The African-American Odyssey