ABOUT THIS BOOK

This is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states—Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin—dealt with the Court’s mandate to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” The process followed many diverse paths.

Some of the common themes in these efforts were the importance of black activism, especially the crucial role played by the NAACP; entrenched white opposition to school integration, which wasn’t just a southern state issue, as is shown in Delaware, Wisconsin, and Indiana; and the role of the federal government, a sometimes inconstant and sometimes reluctant source of support for implementing Brown.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Brian J. Daugherity is associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the author of several books, including Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia.

Charles C. Bolton is professor and head of history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and the author of a number of books, including The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi.

REVIEWS

“Brown v. Board of Education (1954) may well be the greatest and most morally inspiring decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in its history. But it is also a decision wherein, preeminently, the devil lies in the details—in the story of how Brown was implemented and of how the decision shaped both education and society in states where schools had formerly been segregated by law. Therefore, this volume of thorough and excellent essays, edited by Brian J. Daugherity and Charles C. Bolton, is especially valuable.”
—Journal of Southern History

“Without question, With All Deliberate Speed adds much to our understanding of the history and legacy of the Brown decision and also raises significant questions about the broader civil rights movement. This carefully researched and lucidly written volume is a must-read for those interested in this crucial period in American and African American history. All parties involved in this venture should be highly commended for their pathbreaking and much-needed collection.”
—Indiana Magazine of History, September 2009

“These essays offer a rich portrait of individuals struggling to turn the constitutional principal of Brown into educational opportunity for the nation’s African American children … by attempting to lay out the varieties of experiences with school desegregation across the nation …. this volume serves a valuable purpose.”
—Journal of American History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction
	Brian J. Daugherity and Charles C. Bolton 	000
Implementing Brown in Arkansas
	Johanna Miller Lewis	000
The Cost of Opportunity: School Desegregation's Complicated Calculus in North 
Carolina
	J. Michael McElreath	000
"Keep on Keeping On": African Americans and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of 
Education in Virginia
	Brian J. Daugherity	000
The Palmetto Revolution: School Desegregation in South Carolina
	Vernon Burton and Lewie Reece	000
Defiance, Protest, and Compromise: The Struggle to Implement Brown in Georgia, 
1950/1973
	Thomas V. O'Brien	000
The Last Holdout: Mississippi and the Brown Decision
	Charles C. Bolton	000
A State Divided: Implementation of the Brown Decision in Florida, 1954/1970
	Caroline Emmons	000
Promises of Brown: Desegregating Education in Delaware, 1950/1968
	Bradley Skelcher	000
Border State Ebb and Flow: School Desegregation in Missouri, 1954/1999
	Peter William Moran	000
The Complexity of School Desegregation in the Borderland: The Case of Indiana
	Jayne R. Beilke	000
Northern Desegregation and the Racial Politics of Magnet Schools in Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin
	Jack Dougherty	000
Brown, Integration, and Nevada
	Michael S. Green	000
Notes	000
List of Contributors	000
Index	000

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