Contents

• Foreword / William H. Rehnquist
• "Among the most humane moments in all our history" : Brown v. Board of Education in historical perspective / Melvin I. Urofsky
• Post- Plessy, pre-Brown : "logical exactness" in enforcing equal rights / Andrew Kull
• Before Brown : the racial integration of American higher education / David W. Levy - - Justice Robert H. Jackson and segregation : a study of the limitations and proper basis of judicial action / Jeffrey D. Hockett
• A plea for the demise of a stubborn myth / John D. Fassett
• Linda Brown and the fight for educational equality / Bradley D. Hayes
• A time to lose / Paul E. Wilson
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), (1955)
• Illustrations
• Brown v. Board of Education revisited / Herbert Brownell
• African-American rights after Brown / Gerald N. Rosenberg
• The battle over Brown’s legitimacy / Jeffrey D. Hockett
• Brown as a classroom icon / Diana E. Hess
• Legacies and lessons / James T. Patterson
• Selected bibliography / Melvin I. Urofsky