TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE: "I Began to See": Barbara Lorie on School Desegregation -- BARBARA LORIE'S BACKGROUND -- BARBARA LORIE SPEAKS -- COMMENTARY -- REFERENCES -- 1. INTRODUCTION: School Desegregation and White Domination -- REWRITING HISTORY -- WHY THIS BOOK NOW? -- THE PUBLIC TRANSCRIPT OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION -- THE REAL COST OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION -- "MASSIVE RESISTANCE", SUBTERFUGE AND BACKLASH -- THE ORAL HISTORIES -- REFERENCES -- PART 1: THE SHIFT TO DESEGREGATED SCHOOLS -- 2. REMEMBERING PREAND POST-DESEGREGATION IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3. EDUCATIONAL APARTHEID IN MACON/BIBB COUNTY, GEORGIA: An Oral History of Desegregation and Resegregation -- REFERENCES -- 4. SEGREGATION AND DESEGREGATION IN PARSONS, KANSAS: Memories of Douglass School 1908-1958 - Narrative of Marietta Smith -- DOUGLASS SCHOOL ORAL HISTORY PROJECT -- DOUGLASS SCHOOL, PARSONS, KANSAS -- THE NARRATIVE OF MARIETTA SMITH, DOUGLASS SCHOOL, PARSONS, KS, 1945-1954 -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 5. A HISTORICALLY BLACK HIGH SCHOOL REMAINS INTACT: We Weren't Thinking about White Students -- INTRODUCTION -- PARALLEL COMMUNITIES -- DURHAM'S BLACK COMMUNITY -- SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AT HILLSIDE? -- NARRATIVE -- INTERPRETATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART 2: STUDENT EXPERIENCES -- 6. THE FINAL DAYS OF DOUGLASS SCHOOL: The Narrative of Andrew "Chip" Johnson -- THE NARRATIVE OF ANDREW "CHIP" JOHNSON, DOUGLASS SCHOOL, PARSONS, KS, 1954-1958 -- REFERENCES -- 7. DAN EDWARDS1 REMEMBERING DESEGREGATION IN TAMPA: Introduction and Commentary by Barbara J. Shircliffe -- INTRODUCTION -- WHITE RESISTANCE TO DESEGREGATION IN TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY -- DAN EDWARDS' NARRATIVE -- COMMENTARY -- NOTES -- 8. EDUCATIONAL APARTHEID IN MACON/BIBB COUNTY, GEORGIA: An Oral History of Desegregation and Resegregation, Part II - Alethea's Story -- REFERENCES.

9. MARILYN MATTHIEW1: REMEMBERING DESEGREGATION IN TAMPA: Introduction and Commentary by Barbara J. Shircliffe -- INTRODUCTION -- THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND DESEGREGATION IN TAMPA, FLORIDA -- MARILYN MATTHIEW'S NARRATIVE -- COMMENTARY -- NOTES -- 10. JUST LET THEM HAVE THE SCHOOL: A White Student's Perspective of School Desegregation -- INTRODUCTION -- PARALLEL COMMUNITIES -- DURHAM'S WHITE COMMUNITY -- DURHAM'S BLACK COMMUNITY -- SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AT HISTORICALLY BLACK HILLSIDE HIGH SCHOOL -- NARRATIVE BACKGROUND -- EVA'S NARRATIVE - WHITE HILLSIDE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNA, 1972-1974 -- DISCUSSION -- CURRENT CONTEXT OF HILLSIDE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART 3: IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF DESEGREGATED EDUCATION -- 11. AMBIVALENCE, ANGST, AND HOPE: Black Principals in Mississippi -- DR. FENTON PETERS: AN AMBIVALENT DE-SEGREGATIONIST2 -- COMMENTARY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 12. "IT'S TIME TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT": Symbolic Order and the Limits of Imagination -- ARRIVING IN CAMDEN -- LOCATING CAMDEN: THE LAY OF THE LAND -- MEETING MR. REVELLE -- INVITING CHANGE -- WHITE ARRIVAL: "I WOULDN'T LET MY HOGS LIVE IN A PLACE LIKE THIS" -- PRO-INTEGRATION -- "YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYBODY" -- "LARGELY IT'S SOMETHING I KIND OF WANT TO FORGET." -- DISCIPLINE IN BLACK AND WHITE -- "JUST LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, LOSING THE JOB OVER THERE. NOW HE NEVER HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEND HIMSELF" -- "WHEN WE UNDERSTAND WHERE ANOTHER PERSON IS COMING FROM, WE CAN QUITE OFTEN DO BETTER IN GETTING ALONG" -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 13. IMPLEMENTING THE "LAW OF THE LAND": White Superintendents in Mississippi -- INTRODUCTION -- "IT'S THE LAW OF THE LAND": TOM DULIN -- COMMENTARY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CONCLUSION: White Backlash and Educational Reform - Then and Now -- "A NATION AT RISK"-"A MANUFACTURED CRISIS".

SCHOOL REFORM -A MOVEMENT WITHOUT A FOUNDATION -- EFFECTS OF THE BACKLASH ON STUDENTS OF COLOR -- WHITE BENEFITS OF THE BACKLASH -- UNLIVING A LIE -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS.