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  • With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education
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  • Edited by Brian J. Daugherity and Charles C. Bolton
  • 2008
  • Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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This is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states—Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin—dealt with the Court’s mandate to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” The process followed many diverse paths.
 
Some of the common themes in these efforts were the importance of black activism, especially the crucial role played by the NAACP; entrenched white opposition to school integration, which wasn’t just a southern state issue, as is shown in Delaware, Wisconsin, and Indiana; and the role of the federal government, a sometimes inconstant and sometimes reluctant source of support for implementing Brown.

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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. vii-xvi
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  1. Implementing Brown in Arkansas
  2. pp. 1-19
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  1. The Cost of Opportunity: School Desegregation’s Complicated Calculus in North Carolina
  2. pp. 21-40
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  1. “Keep on Keeping On”: African Americans and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia
  2. pp. 41-57
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  1. The Palmetto Revolution: School Desegregation in South Carolina
  2. pp. 59-91
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  1. Defiance, Protest, and Compromise: The Struggle to Implement Brown in Georgia, 1950–1973
  2. pp. 93-122
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  1. The Last Holdout: Mississippi and the Brown Decision
  2. pp. 123-138
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  1. A State Divided: Implementation of the Brown Decision in Florida, 1954–1970
  2. pp. 139-154
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  1. Promises of Brown: Desegregating Education in Delaware, 1950–1968
  2. pp. 155-173
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  1. Border State Ebb and Flow: School Desegregation in Missouri, 1954–1999
  2. pp. 175-198
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  1. The Complexity of School Desegregation in the Borderland: The Case of Indiana
  2. pp. 199-215
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  1. Northern Desegregation and the Racial Politics of Magnet Schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  2. pp. 217-230
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  1. Brown, Integration, and Nevada
  2. pp. 231-248
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 249-327
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 329-331
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 333-339
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