Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-327) and index.
Implementing Brown in Arkansas / Johanna Miller Lewis -- The cost of opportunity : school desegregation's complicated calculus in North Carolina / J. Michael McElreath -- "Keep on keeping on" : African Americans and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia / Brian J. Daugherity -- The Palmetto revolution : school desegregation in South Carolina / Vernon Burton and Lewie Reece -- Defiance, protest, and compromise : the struggle to implement Brown in Georgia, 1950-1973 / Thomas V. O'Brien -- The last holdout : Mississippi and the Brown decision / Charles C. Bolton -- A state divided : implementation of the Brown decision in Florida, 1954-1970 / Caroline Emmons -- Promises of Brown : desegregating education in Delaware, 1950-1968 / Bradley Skelcher -- Border state ebb and flow : school desegregation in Missouri, 1954-1999 / Peter William Moran -- The complexity of school desegregation in the borderland : the case of Indiana / Jayne R. Beilke -- Northern desegregation and the racial politics of magnet schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Jack Dougherty -- Brown, integration, and Nevada / Michael S. Green