Annotated Bibliography Featured Resource The Crisis, May/June 2004: The Verdict on Equal Education. This special issue of the NAACP publication focuses on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board and includes articles on Charles Hamilton Houston, Robert Carter, the legal strategy behind Brown, one of the first Black students involved in the integration process, and the unfulfilled promise of Brown. To order copies for use at special events, contact India Artis at iartis@naacpnet.org or 410-580-5137. Balkin, Jack M., ed. What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said. New York: New York University Press, 2001. A group of constitutional scholars rewrites the Brown decision, looking back over the 50 years of American history and race relations that have passed since the decision was first announced. Cottrol, Robert J., Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. Brown v. Board of Education: Case, Culture, and the Constitution. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Intended for students and general readers, this book tells the dramatic story of the road to and from Brown. Argues that "Brown not only changed the national equation of race and caste—it also changed our view of the Court's role in American life." Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Examines the influence of the Cold War in shaping civil rights struggles within the United States. Irons, Peter. Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. New York: Viking, 2002. Argues that Supreme Court decisions over the past few decades have significantly reduced the promise of the Brown decision, contributing to trends of "resegregation" and persistent racial gaps in education today. Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice. New York: Vintage, 1977. Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the Brown decision. Offers detailed histories of the cases that were consolidated in Brown v. Board, as well as the early history of the NAACP and the legal strategy that led up to Brown. Martin, Waldo E. Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History With Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998. Introductory essay and primary-source documents from selected cases from Roberts v. City of Boston (1850) through Brown. Also includes newspaper editorials, letters to editors, and political cartoons in response to Brown. Part of Bedford Series in History and Culture. McNeil, Genna Rae. Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Biography of Howard University School of Law Dean Charles Hamilton Houston, who served as Special Counsel to the NAACP, and is considered the principal architect of the legal strategy that led to Brown. Ogletree, Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of Education. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. A history of Brown from the decision in 1954 and its legacy up to the present day. The author, a Harvard law professor and leading civil rights attorney, considers the personal ramifications of Brown for him and his family. Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Analyzes the 50-year aftermath of the Brown decision and questions the extent to which this history conflicts with popular perceptions of the Brown decision as a triumph in the struggle for civil rights. Rosenberg, Gerald N. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Examines the limits on the judiciary's power to effect social and political reform. Sarat, Austin, ed. Race, Law and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. A set of scholarly essays that consider the contested legacy of Brown and the way in which it is implicated in America's persistent uncertainties about race.