All Deliberate Speed PA

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the doctrine of "separatebut-equal" no longer had a place in American society. Finally, the nation's highest court had agreed that segregation was inherently unequal and that legalized racial inequality could no longer be tolerated. Fifty years later, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., confronts the complicated legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, telling his personal story of growing up as a "Brown Baby" against a vivid backdrop of historical figures-heroes and foes alike-including, among others, Martin Luther King, Jr., Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, Charles Houston, Anita Hill, and Clarence Thomas. In All Deliberate Speed, Ogletree examines the shocking ambivalence of the American judicial system toward education inequalities, the increasing legal challenges to affirmative action and how those challenges have brought the issue of reparations to the fore. All Deliberate Speed is a riveting personal history of the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and its sweeping effect on American society. Book jacket.

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice