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Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.(Review) (book review)

American Prospect, The,  May, 2001  by KAHLENBERG, RICHARD D.

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Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, by James T. Patterson.

Oxford University Press, 285 pages, $27.50.

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What are we to think of Brown v. Board of Education nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court handed down the decision? On the one hand, the momentous ruling of May 17, 1954, ushered in a sweeping transformation, striking down state laws that required racially segregated public schools and helping accelerate a sea change in attitudes toward race. Consider how public opinion has ...

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