Table of Contents:
  • Over John Brown's dead body: white supremacy and white liberalism in Kansas
  • The alchemy of race and rights: separate but equal in Topeka Public Schools, 1861-1954
  • Reading, ri(gh)ting, and resistance: racial uplift ideologies and practices in Topeka's all-Black schools, 1929-1954
  • Graham v. Board and the clash of the Black counterpublics
  • Harrison Caldwell: the unsung Black antihero of Brown
  • Blacks against Brown: the final chapter, 1941-1954.