Removing a badge of slavery : [electronic resource] the record of Brown v. Board of Education / edited by Mark Whitman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-353).

Pt. 1. Prelude: The Forebears of Brown. I. Charles Sumner: Argument in Roberts v. City of Boston (1849). II. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): The Bad Seed. 1. Brief for Plaintiff / Albion Tourgee. 2. Brief for Plaintiff / Samuel F. Phillips. 3. Majority Opinion of Justice Henry Brown. 4. Justice John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting. III. Brief by Charles H. Houston and Thurgood Marshall: University of Maryland v. Murray (1936). IV. Gunnar Myrdal: An American Dilemma (1944). V. The NAACP's Brief: Sweatt v. Painter (1950). VI. Sweatt v. Painter (1950) and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950) -- Pt. 2. The Trial Level. I. The Doll Man and His Critics. 1. Testimony of Kenneth Clark - Briggs Trial. 2. "Jurisprudence" (1955) / Edmond Cahn. 3. Note: "Grade School Segregation: The Latest Attack on Discrimination" - Yale Law Journal (1952). 4. The Fabric of Society (1957) / Ernest van den Haag and Ralph Ross. 5. Reply by Kenneth Clark - Prejudice and Your Child (1963).