With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education

Index

Contributors Jayne R. Beilke is a professor of Secondary and Social Foundations of Education in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University , Muncie, Indiana. Her research interests focus on educational philanthropy (particularly the Julius Rosenwald Fund) and African American educational history in general. Charles C. Bolton is professor and head of History at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He is the author of The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870–1980. Vernon Burton is University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also the director of the Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science. Burton is the author of more than one hundred articles and the author or editor of fourteen books; his most recent publication is The Age of Lincoln (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007). Brian J. Daugherity is a collateral instructor of History and the assistant to the chair of the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. His research interests include the civil rights movement, southern race relations, and the history of Virginia. He is currently working on a manuscript examining the NAACP and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia and coproducing a documentary film on the historic but little-known Green v. New Kent County, Virginia, United States Supreme Court decision (1968). 329 Jack Dougherty is an associate professor and director of the Educational Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His prizewinning book, More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee explores how three generations of civil rights activism changed in the urban Midwest from the 1930s to 2004. His current research examines how housing markets and education politics shaped cities, suburbs, and schooling during the twentieth century. Caroline Emmons is associate professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, where she teaches courses on American and African American history. She has published articles on Harry T. Moore and the civil rights movement in Florida. She is currently at work on a biography of Ruby Hurley, head of the Southeastern Regional NAACP office from 1951 to 1978. Michael S. Green is a professor of History at the Community College of Southern Nevada. He has published several books on Nevada and Las Vegas history, including Freedom, Union, and Power: The Republican Party During the Civil War, and a number of articles on ethnicity and civil rights in southern Nevada. He is now writing a history of the politics of the 1850s and co-writing the autobiography of a pioneer Las Vegas gaming figure. Johanna Miller Lewis is professor of History and graduate coordinator of Public History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In addition to a book and numerous publications, she has led award-winning history projects, including the traveling exhibit, “‘The Finest High School for Negro Boys and Girls’: Dunbar High School of Little Rock, Arkansas, 1929–1955,” the Central High Museum and Visitor Center, the National Historic Landmark designation for the Daisy Bates House, and “Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas.” J. Michael McElreath is an assistant professor of History at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. He completed his dissertation, “The Cost of Opportunity: School Desegregation and Changing Race Relations in the Triangle,” in 2002, at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at public and private high schools in New Jersey and North Carolina and is the on-site director of the North Carolina Governor’s School East. 330 Contributors Peter William Moran is an associate professor of Education at the University of Wyoming. His research focuses broadly on the history of education generally with particular interest in school desegregation. Moran is the author of Race, Law and the Desegregation of Public Schools, a case study of Kansas City, Missouri’s fifty-year struggle to integrate their schools. Thomas V. O’Brien is an associate professor of Education and director of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University at Mansfield. His research interests are in the foundations of education with a specialty in the history of race and education. He has published numerous journal articles and reviews as well as two books: The Politics of Race and Schooling: Public Education in Georgia, 1900–1961 and Bridging Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, co-edited with Mordechai Gordon...