Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education

edited by Orville Vernon Burton and David O'Brien
contributions by Julian Bond, Orville Vernon Burton, Jason Chambers, Constance Curry, Joseph A. De Laine, Jr., Mary L. Dudziak, Joe Feagin, John Hope Franklin, Ophelia De Laine Gona, Lani Guinier, Darlene Clark Hine, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, John Jennings, Ralph Lemon, George Lipsitz, Jim Loewen, Laughlin McDonald, David O'Brien, James C. Onderdonk, Sekou Sundiata, Kal Alston, Christopher Teal, Nicholas Watkins, Carrie Mae Weems, Juan Williams, Joy Ann WIlliamson, Margaret L Andersen, Kathryn H. Anthony, Nathaniel C Banks, Bernice McNair Barnett, Christopher Benson and Ed Blankenheim

University of Illinois Press, 2009
Cloth: 978-0-252-03477-0 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05396-2 | Paper: 978-0-252-07665-7
Library of Congress Classification KF4155.R45 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 344.730798

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of the Brown decision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. The book stands as a historic document in its own right, preserving the reactions of many prominent intellectuals, artists, and activists fifty years after the decision.

Contributors are Kal Alston, Margaret L. Andersen, Kathryn H. Anthony, Nathaniel C. Banks, Bernice McNair Barnett, Christopher Benson, Ed Blankenheim, Julian Bond, Orville Vernon Burton, Jason Chambers, Constance Curry, Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Mary L. Dudziak, Joe R. Feagin, John Hope Franklin, Ophelia De Laine Gona, Lani Guinier, Darlene Clark Hine, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, John Jennings, Ralph Lemon, George Lipsitz, Jim Loewen, Laughlin McDonald, David O'Brien, James C. Onderdonk, Sekou Sundiata, Christopher Teal, Nicholas Watkins, Carrie Mae Weems, Juan Williams, and Joy Ann Williamson.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Orville Vernon Burton is Burroughs Distinguished Chair of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University and the author of The Age of Lincoln and other works. David O'Brien is an associate professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting, and Propaganda under Napoleon.

REVIEWS

"Provides wonderful insights . . . and should inspire others to continue the struggle to achieve educational equality in the United States."--The Journal of African American History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledments

Introduction Orville Vernon Burton and David O’Brien

SECTION I: BROWN: ITS HISTORY AND LEGACY

2. George Lipsitz Getting Around Brown: The Social Warrant of the New Racism

3. Margaret L. Andersen From Brown to Grutter: The Diverse Beneficiaries of Brown v. Board of Education

4. Laughlin McDonald Beyond School Desegregation: The Impact of Brown

5. Jason Chambers “A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: The Advertising Council, the United Negro College Fund, and Educational Access for African Americans

6. Joe R. Feagin and Bernice McNair Barnett Success and Failure: How Systemic Racism Trumped the Brown v. Board of Education Decision

7. Lani Guinier From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Divergence Dilemma

SECTION II: BROWN AND LIVED EXPERIENCES

8. Joseph A. De Laine Jr. Briggs: South Carolina’s Bold Step That Led to Brown

9. Ophelia De Laine Gona About Integration: In Memory of the Reverend J. A. De Laine

10. John Hope Franklin My Life and Times with Thurgood Marshall

11. Constance Curry The Intolerable Burden

12. James C. Onderdonk The Freedom Riders: Two Personal Perspectives

13. Ed Blankenheim Looking Back at the Freedom Riders

14. Kal Alston The Middle Generation after Brown

SECTION III: THE ARTS AND BROWN

15. Sekou Sundiata Why Colored Faces in High Places Just Won’t Do

16. John Jennings The Chance Project

17. Ralph Lemon What Was Always There

18. Carrie Mae Weems and David O’Brien Art and Integration: An Interview with Carrie Mae Weems

19: David O’Brien Social Studies: Eight Artists Address Brown

SECTION IV: ILLINOIS AND BROWN

20. Kathryn H. Anthony and Nicholas Watkins A Legacy of Firsts: African Americans in Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

21. Nathaniel C. Banks Reflections on the Brown Commemoration from a Champaign Native

22. Joy Ann Williamson Lott Reform in the Black Power Era

23. Richard Herman Lest We Forget

24. James W. Loewen Enforcing Brown in Sundown Towns

SECTION V: PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND BROWN AND ITS LEGACY

28. Juan Williams and Christopher Teal Thurgood Marshall’s Vision

Epilogue Mary L. Dudziak Brown’s Global Impact

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover

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