Choosing Equality

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