Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by James E. Ryan -- Introduction by Kristi L. Bowman -- Part I. Mendez, Brown, and the Civil Rights Act -- Mendez (1946) -- Standing on the Shoulders of Mendez v. Westminster - Frederick P. Aguirre -- Our Children Are Americans: Mendez v. Westminster and Mexican American Rights - Philippa Strum -- Pursuing Equity at the Intersection of School Desegregation, English-Language Instruction, and Immigration - Kristi L. Bowman -- Brown (1954) -- The Rest of the Story of Brown v. Board of Education - Cheryl Brown Henderson -- Brown v. Board of Education: An Axe in the Frozen Sea of Racism - Jack Greenberg -- Integrating an All-White High School in the Segregated South: Memories, Challenges, and Lessons Learned - Patricia A. Edwards -- Brown's 60th Anniversary: A Story of Judicial Isolation - Wendy Parker -- The Civil Rights Act (1964) -- Massive Resistance before the Civil Rights Act: The Integration of Little Rock Central High School - John J. (Jack) Feeheley -- Equity in Education: The Present and Future of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Allison R. Brown -- Defining Discrimination: Intent, Impact, and the Future of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Derek W. Black -- Part II. Desegregation Unfolds -- Milliken (1974) -- Milliken v. Bradley: A Judicial Betrayal of Brown - Nathaniel R. Jones -- School Desegregation in Metropolitan Detroit: Struggling for Justice in a Divided and Troubled Community - Joyce A. Baugh -- Milliken and the Prospects for Racial Diversity in U.S. Public Schools - Charles T. Clotfelter -- Jenkins (1995) -- Missouri v. Jenkins: A Remedy without Objective Limitation - John R. Munich -- Missed Opportunities, Enduring Legacies: School Segregationand Desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri - Kevin Fox Gotham -- The Legal Legacy of Missouri v. Jenkins - Kristi L. Bowman.

Parents Involved and Meredith (2007) -- Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education: A Community Committed to Diverse Schools - Byron E. Leet -- Making Schools More Separate and Unequal: Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 - Erwin Chemerinsky -- Contesting White Accumulation in Seattle: Toward a Materialist Antiracist Analysis of School Desegregation - Michael J. Dumas -- Part III. Looking to the Future -- After Unitary Status: Examining Voluntary Integration Strategies for Southern School Districts - Danielle R. Holley-Walker -- Voluntary Integration and School Board Leadership in Louisville, Kentucky - Erica Frankenberg and Sarah Diem -- How Adequacy Litigation Fails to Fulfill the Promise of Brown (But How it Can Get Us Closer) - David Hinojosa and Karolina Walters -- Teacher Evaluation and Collective Bargaining: The New Frontier of Civil Rights - Benjamin M. Superfine and Jessica J. Gottlieb -- Education and Civil Rights: Lessons of Six Decades and Challenges of a Changed Society - Gary Orfield -- Contributing Authors -- Index.