Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liberalism, Race, and the American Dilemma -- 1. An American Border City -- 2. A Long Black Campaign for Equality -- 3. Opening the Racial Door Slightly -- 4. Desegregation by Free Choice -- 5. Modest Change -- 6. Parents' Protest against Continuing Segregation -- 7. Growing Integrationism and the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 8. Federal Intervention -- 9. Federal Officials, the School Board, and Parents Negotiate -- 10. The City's Court Victory -- Conclusion: Baltimore School Desegregation, Liberalism, and Race -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.