Jim Crow's Children : The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools, and gripping courtroom drama scenes, Irons shows how the erosion of the Browndecision—especially by the Court’s rulings over the past three decades—has led to the resegregation” of public education in America.

Peter Irons, a well-known civil rights lawyer and scholar, is professor of political science and director of the Earl Warren Bill of Rights Project at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous award-winning books, including A People-'s History of the Supreme Court, which was awarded the Silver Gavel Certificate of Merit by the American Bar Association.