All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education
In what John Hope Franklin calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a "Brown baby" against a vivid pageant of historical characters that includes, among others, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Earl Warren, Anita Hill, Alan Bakke, and Clarence Thomas. A measured blend of personal memoir, exacting legal analysis, and brilliant insight, Ogletree's eyewitness account of the legacy of Brown v. Board of...
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"An effective blend of memoir, history and legal analysis."—Christopher Benson, Washington Post Book World
Ch. 1The significance of Brown3Ch. 2The legacy of segregation : what Brown meant in Merced15Ch. 3Brown's promise : black students at Stanford41Ch. 4Brown's failure : resistance in Boston57Ch. 5Brown's challenge : carrying the torch79Ch. 6Life before Brown97Ch. 7Defeating Jim Crow111Ch. 8Resistance to Brown124Ch. 9Marshall and king : two paths to justice135Ch. 10Reversing the Brown mandate : the Bakke challenge147Ch. 11The legacy of Thurgood Marshall167Ch. 12The rise of Clarence Thomas183Ch. 13Who's getting lynched? : Hill V. Thomas200Ch. 14Justice Thomas : a new era in race matters218Ch. 15The Michigan cases : mixed signals239Ch. 16Meeting the educational challenges of the twenty-first century259Ch. 17Addressing the racial divide : reparations274Ch. 18The integration ideal : sobering reflections300Afterword : the post O'Connor Supereme Court : the emergence of the Scalia Court?
