Remember: The Journey to School Integration — Toni Morrison
The author has collected archival photographs that depict the events surrounding school desegregation. These images serve as the inspiration for Morrison’s text—a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of separate but equal schooling.
Educational Freedom in Urban America: Fifty Years after Brown vs. Board of Education—David Salisbury
This book offers a prescription for reform that includes freedom of choice among public and private schools.
Brown vs. Board: The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court—Leon Friedman and Waldo E. Martin
This book contains Brown vs. Board of Education transcripts, never before available to the general reading public.
The Unfinished Agenda of Brown vs. Board of Education—Dara N. Byrne
The editors of Black Issues in Higher Education solicited opinions on the effects of Brown vs. Board of Education from a diverse group of activists, scholars, jurists, educators and theorists. The result is this collection of essays offering a range of enlightening, thought-provoking and highly controversial views.
After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation—Charles T. Clotfelter
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown’s most visible effect—contact between students of different racial groups—has changed over the fifty years since the decision.
Simple Justice: The History Of Brown vs. Board Of Education and Black America’s Struggle For Equality—Richard Kluger
This book provides a history of the Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation and culminated in a century long social and legal struggle to establish black equality in the U.S.
All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown vs. Board of Education—Charles J. Ogletree
Harvard law professor Ogletree takes a confrontational look at the effects of the landmark decision on his own life as an African-American student and scholar and concludes that the Brown ruling ultimately failed to deliver on its promise of equality for all.
The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Undermine America’s Dream—Sheryll Cashin
The book is a provocative look at how segregation by race and class is ruining American democracy.
Toward Humanity and Justice: The Writings of Kenneth B. Clark, Scholar of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Decision—Woody Klein
This collection of black psychologist Dr. Kenneth B. Clark’s body of work over a half-century reveals his insight into the fields of social science, education, politics, and the law. He tells the inside story of the ground-breaking studies he made of black public school children, showing they lacked self-esteem because they were treated separately and differently than their white counterparts. His social science papers were the basis for the landmark decision of May 17, 1954.
Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision—Peter H. Irons
Irons celebrates the Brown ruling, however, he cautions against what he sees as the throes of resegregation. This book covers the 150-year struggle to realize the ideal of equality in public education and demonstrates that the struggle continues.
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