Movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954? Could the Court-or President Eisenhower-have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph-but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case.

Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon andĬontroversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Lawsuits (at great personal cost) to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. Here, in a concise, compelling narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!' The litigation, exclaimed later, 'I was so happy, I was numb.' The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, 'another battle of the Civil War has been won.

Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools.

Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v.

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