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Intro; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Stage Fright; Chapter 2. Escaped Hamsters; Chapter 3. Journey Without Maps; Chapter 4. The Stone Age; Chapter 5. Taxing Times; Chapter 6. Hawks Versus Doves; Chapter 7. The Cancer of Hubris; Chapter 8. Culture Shock; Chapter 9. Risk and Resilience; Chapter 10. Leaders Throw Long Shadows; Chapter 11. Life's Third Act; Acknowledgements; Interviews; Notes; Copyright Page

"When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across the South temporarily closed a building here or there to block a specific desegregation order, only in Prince Edward did local authorities abandon public education entirely--and with every intention of permanence. When the public schools finally reopened after five years of struggle--under direct order of the Supreme Court--county authorities employed every weapon in their arsenal to ensure that the newly reopened system remained segregated, impoverished, and academically substandard. Intertwining educational and children's history with the history of the black freedom struggle, Titus draws on little-known archival sources and new interviews to reveal the ways that ordinary people, black and white, battled, and continue to battle, over the role of public education in the United States"--

The promise of Brown : desegregation, affirmative action and the struggle for racial equality / Manning Marable -- What are the ultimate meaning and significance of Brown vs. Board of Education? a note on justice, constitutionalism, and the human person / Samuel DuBois Cook -- The continuing spirit of the Brown decision of the Supreme Court / Charles Willie -- Observing the fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 United States Supreme Court school desegregation decision in Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas / Charles U. Smith -- Remembering Little Rock, 1957 / Lester P. Monts -- Frasier vs. UNC : a personal account / Ralph K. Frasier -- Brown vs. Board and Columbus / Robert M. Duncan -- A bi-generational narrative on the Brown vs. Board decision / Adia M. Harvey and William B. Harvey -- Why all deliberate speed? using Brown to understand Brown / John A. Powell -- Brown's legacy : the promises and pitfalls of judicial relief / Deborah Jones Merritt -- The not so strange path of desegregation in America's public schools / Philip T. K. Daniel -- The big disconnect between segregation and integration / Vincene Verdu -- Brown vs. Board of Education at fifty : where are we now? / Janine Hancock Jones and Charles R. Hancock -- Children of Brown / Mac A. Stewart

Commemorating Brown: psychology as a force for liberation / Glenn Adams -- Organized psychology's efforts to influence the Supreme Court on matters of race and education / Lawrence S. Wrightsman -- Still a long way to go : American black-white relations today / Thomas F. Pettigrew -- Brown and intergroup relations : reclaiming a lost opportunity / Walter G. Stephan -- Legacies of Brown : success and failure in social science research on racism / Joe R. Feagin -- From Kansas to Michigan : the path from desegregation to diversity / Amy E. Smith and Faye J. Crosby -- Sense of commonality in values among racial/ethnic groups : an opportunity for a new conception of integration / Patricia Gurin ... [et al.] -- The American color line fifty years after Brown v. Board : many "peoples of color" or black exceptionalism? / David O. Sears -- The pernicious relationship between merit assessment and discrimination in education / Jean-Claude Croizet -- The psychology of invisibility / Stephanie A. Fryberg and Sarah S.M. Townsend -- Desegregating the self : transcending identity politics in South Africa / Elizabeth A. Self and Daniel G. Acheson-Brown -- Beyond prejudice : toward a sociocultural psychology of racism and oppression / Glenn Adams ... [et al.]

This text reshapes how we think about the origins of the civil rights era. The book paints a complex portrait of racial politics in the South in the first half of the 20th century and shows how the weaknesses in the Jim Crow system allowed reformers to lay some of the groundwork that would lead to the system's eventual collapse