About this book
Overview
IN WHAT JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a ""Brown baby" against a vivid pageant of historical Characters that includes, among others, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther king, Jr., Earl Warren, Anita Hill, Alan Bakke, and Clarence Thomas. A measured blend of personal memoir exacting legal analysis, and brilliant insight, Ogletree's eyewitness account of the legacy of "Brown v. Board of Education offers a unique vantage point from which to view five decades of race relations in America.