Contents
Foreword by the Hon. Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Robert L. Hayman Jr. and Leland Ware
Part I. The Context: Race and Segregation
1. Robert L. Hayman Jr.: A History of Race in Delaware: 1639–1950
2. Interview of the Honorable Collins Jacques Seitz Conducted by the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. and by David V. Stivison
3. Delaware Voices: Collins J. Seitz Jr.
4. Annette Woolard-Provine: Remembering Louis Redding
5. Juan Williams: Remembering Thurgood Marshall
6. Robert J. Cottrol: The Difference That Brown Made
7. Jack Greenberg: A Glass Half Full
Part II. The Experience: Education and Desegregation
8. Leland Ware: Educational Equity and Brown v. Board of Education:
Fifty Years of School Desegregation in Delaware
9. Orlando Camp and Ed Kee: Lost Opportunity: The Failure to Integrate Milford's Public Schools in 1954
10. Delaware Voices: Littleton Mitchell
11. An Interview with the Honorable Murray M. Schwartz
12. Roger L. Goldman: The Resegregation Decisions and the New Federalism
13. Delaware Voices: Jae Street
Part III. The Legacies: Desegregation and Resegregation
14. James T. Patterson: Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
15. Robert J. Lipkin: Haunted by Brown
16. Paul Finkelman: Civil Rights in Historical Context: In Defense of Brown
17 Jack M. Balkin: Brown, Social Movements, and Social Change
18 Nancy Levit: Race and Sex Segregation in Schools Fifty Years after Brown
19 Patricia J. Williams: Pre-White and Post-Black: The Aesthetics of Oppression
20 Jeffrey A. Raffel: Charter Schools in the Context of Brown: Panacea
or Faustian Bargaining?
21 Michele Fuetsch and Leland Ware: Race, Class, and Resegregation:
Delaware Schools Fifty Years after Brown
22 Robert L. Hayman Jr. and Leland Ware: The Geography of Discrimination:
The Seattle and Louisville Cases and the Legacy
of Brown v. Board of Education
Bibliographic Essay by David K. King
Contributors
Index
Robert L. Hayman Jr. is Professor of Law at Widener University. Leland Ware is Louis L. Redding Professor for the Study of Law and Public Policy at the University of Delaware.
“This splendid collection combines reminiscences and essays tightly
focused on Delaware’s experience with segregation and desegregation
with more general essays on the meaning of Brown v. Board of
Education to provide readers with a well-rounded understanding of
the experience of desegregation in Delaware and, as important,
around the nation.”—Mark Tushnet,William Nelson Cromwell Professor
of Law, Harvard Law School
“This is an excellent collection of essays dealing with the impact
of the Supreme Court’s historic 1954 opinion in Brown v. Board of
Education. It is a must-read for anyone trying to understand the
implications of the Brown decision for American society.”—Kevin D.
Brown,Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
“This collection of essays provides an interesting lens through
which to examine Brown and its legacy, namely, the local situation
in Delaware, particularly New Castle County and Wilmington. . . .
Its unique local perspective offers an important lens for better
understanding the national issues.”—Paul R. Dimond,author of Beyond
Busing (2005)
“In clear words, thorough research, and powerful arguments, Hayman
and Ware—through their own voices and those of contributors, some
of whom were the titans for justice—retell the road to Brown v.
Board of Education. They do so through a deep exploration of
Delaware’s untold story. Choosing Equality thus lays bare a
northern state’s part in a personal, legal conversation for human
dignity. Brown’s integration principle did not end this
conversation. It continues today in the founding of charter schools
and in Parents Involved in Community Schools. A truly important
book, Choosing Equality is a must-read.”—Reginald Leamon
Robinson,Howard University School of Law
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