Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: What Is Segregation?

1.Challenging the Law

2.Linda Carol Brown

3.Children Are Craving Light

4.Stand Together

5.Lasting Injury

6.Student Strike!

7.Playing for Keeps

8.Mad at Everyone

9.“We Are All American”

10.In the Minds of Children

11.Helping Make History

12.We Knew We Were Right

13.We, Too, Are Equal

14.The Greatest Victory

15.How Things Worked in America

Epilogue: The Fight Goes On

Brief Summaries of the Cases

Text of the Fourteenth Amendment

Text of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Picture Credits

Acknowledgments