Bell, Derrick.
Serving Two Masters
:
Integration
Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation.
Yale Law Review, 1976. Professor Bell challenges view about school desegregation and the decision made in
Brown v. Board of Education
. He talks about how these decisions failed to improve the lives of black children and black communities; litigators were more interested in obtaining integrated schools than quality schools in black communities.
Klarman
,
Michael J.
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
. Oxford University Press, 2004. Michael Klarman give his interpretation of Supreme Court rulings during the times between Jim Crow and the Civil Right Movement, including
Brown v. Board of Education.
Kluger, Richard.
Simple Justice
. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. This is the history of the case
Brown v. Board of Education
. This book gives details of the problems before the landmark case and how a group of Black lawyers were assembled and fought to change the law.
Loury, Glenn C.
Race,
Incarceration, and American Values
. Boston Review, 2008. Glenn Loury argues that the rise in mass incarceration is not based on a rise in crimes. He believes that it is a collective decision to maintain racial hierarchy, voter disenfranchisement and ethnoracial control.
Pattillo Beals, Melba.
Warriors Don't Cry
. Simon Pulse, 1994. The story of the Little Rock Nine students, who integrated Little Rock High School in Little Rock, Arkansas told by Melba, one of the nine. This book gives an account of her experience during this time.
