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Remembering Brown at Fifty : The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown V. Board of Education
ISBN: 9780252076657 | 0252076656
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Pub. Date: 11/1/2009
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Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of theBrown v. Board of Educationdecision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of theBrowndecision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. The book stands as a historic document in its own right, preserving the reactions of many prominent intellectuals, artists, and activists fifty years after the decision. Contributors are Kal Alston, Margaret L. Andersen, Kathryn H. Anthony, Nathaniel C. Banks, Bernice McNair Barnett, Christoph... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Brown: Its History and Legacy | |
| The Briggs v. Elliott Legacy: Black Culture, Consciousness, and Community before Brown, 1930-1954 | p. 23 |
| Getting Around Brown: The Social Warrant of the New Racism | p. 38 |
| From Brown to Grutter: The Diverse Beneficiaries of Brown v. Board of Education | p. 64 |
| Beyond School Desegregation: The Impact of Brown | p. ... MORE |
| "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste": The Advertising Council, the United Negro College Fund, and Educational Access for African Americans | p. 105 |
| Success and Failure: How Systemic Racism Trumped the Brown v. Board of Education Decision | p. 117 |
| From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Divergence Dilemma | p. 149 |
| Brown and Lived Experience | |
| Briggs: South Carolina's Bold Step That Led to Brown | p. 185 |
| About Integration: In Memory of the Reverend J. A. De Laine | p. 193 |
| My Life and Times with Thurgood Marshall | p. 198 |
| The Intolerable Burden | p. 205 |
| The Freedom Riders: Two Personal Perspectives | p. 211 |
| Looking Back at the Freedom Riders | p. 221 |
| The Middle Generation after Brown | p. 224 |
| The Arts and Brown | |
| Why Colored Faces in High Places Just Won't Do | p. 233 |
| The Chance Project | p. 244 |
| What Was Always There | p. 253 |
| Art and Integration: An Interview with Carrie Mae Weems | p. 262 |
| Social Studies: Eight Artists Address Brown | p. 269 |
| Illinois and Brown | |
| A Legacy of Firsts: African Americans in Architecture at the University of Illinois at-Urbana-Champaign | p. 281 |
| Reflections on the Brown Commemoration from a Champaign Native | p. 301 |
| Reform in the Black Power Era | p. 307 |
| Lest We Forget | p. 318 |
| Enforcing Brown in Sundown Towns | p. 325 |
| Public Intellectuals and Brown and its Legacy | |
| Civil Rights: Now and Then | p. 339 |
| Reflections on Americas Academic Achievement Gap: A Fifty-Year Perspective | p. 358 |
| Just Because of the Color of His Skin: The 1955 Lynching of Emmett Till | p. 373 |
| Thurgood Marshall's Vision | p. 396 |
| Epilogue | |
| Brown's Global Impact | p. 403 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 411 |
| Index | p. 413 |
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Orville Vernon Burton is Burroughs Distinguished Chair of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. David O'Brien is an associate professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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