Table of Contents:
  • Charles Sumner : argument in Roberts volume City of Boston
  • Plessy volume Ferguson : the bad seed
  • Brief by Charles H. Houston and Thurgood Marshall : University of Maryland volume Murray
  • Gunnar Myrdal : an American dilemma
  • The NAACP's brief : Sweatt volume Painter
  • Sweatt volume Painter and McLaurin volume Oklahoma State Regents
  • The doll man and his critics
  • The social scientists speak
  • Rebuttal in Virginia
  • Mr. Moore's antics
  • The preliminary decisions
  • Brown volume Board of Education of Topeka
  • Briggs volume Elliott
  • Davis volume County School Board of Prince Edward County
  • Postscript: Belton volume Gebhart : what happens when you win?
  • A friend of the court : brief of the American Jewish Congress
  • The controversy over "whr"
  • A slight digression : the matter of original intent
  • Double perspectives
  • Reargument : the central conflict
  • Reargument : the remedy
  • Countdown to May 17, 1954
  • The debate over Brown
  • Bolling volume Sharpe : the Court's commentary on Brown?