Creating Brown v. Board of Education: Ideology and Constitutional Change, 1944-2007
Author: Christopher Schmidt
This book offers a kind of biography of the Supreme Court’s most famous decision. It begins with Brown’s origins in the distinctive atmosphere of post-World War II racial liberalism, and then traces the ways in which subsequent generations of Americans fought over the meaning and significance of Brown, in effect re-creating the decision on their own terms and for their own purposes.