Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Lawyering in the civil rights era
  • Prologue: the long night of Jim Crow
  • The road to Sweatt v. Painter
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Making the case for segregation
  • They had a dream
  • Whose victory? Whose defeat?
  • Legal academics and civil rights lawyering
  • Conclusion: Politics or law? Legacies of lawyering in the civil rights era.