Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: TO SPEAK AGAINST SEGREGATION: Black voices in White America: the Dayton School Case
  • II: "OUR TROUBLED TIMED DEMAND SUCH SACRIFICES": THE DETROIT SCHOOL CASE, 1970-74: The NAACP challenge to segregation
  • The trial of Judge Roth, April to September, 1971
  • Metropolitan conversion in the lower courts, October, 1971, to June, 1973
  • The Detroit Case in the Supreme Court, June, 1973, to July, 1974
  • III: "AVOIDING AN EDUCATION": THE FIRST ROUND IN THE DAYTON SCHOOL CASE, JULY, 1972, TO JUNE, 1977: The trial of Judge Rubin, July, 1972, to December, 1972
  • The skirmishes between the Sixth Circuit and Judge Rubin, January, 1973, to September, 1976
  • The Supreme Court sounds retreat, December, 1976, to June, 1977
  • IV: STANDING AND WAITING: THE FLOUNDERING OF THE LEGAL CHALLENGES TO HOUSING SEGREGATION IN THE 1970S: Open housing, closed court, 1970-79
  • Waiting for Gautreaux: the Chicago Public Housing Case, 1950-1979
  • V: THE LOWER COURTS ANSWER THE SUPREME COURT'S CALL TO RETREAT, 1976-78: Judge Duncan's Trial of the Columbus School Case, April, 1976, to October, 1977
  • The Sixth Circuit on trial: the Columbus and Dayton School Case on appeal, June, 1977, to July, 1978
  • VI: REPRISE AND PREVIEW: THE WILMINGTON SCHOOL CASE, 1971-78: Trial by three judges, 1971-75
  • The interdistrict remedy, 1976-78
  • VII: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE SCHOOL DESEGREGATION CASES, 1978-80: The briefs and arguments in the Supreme Court
  • The decisions from the Supreme Court, 1979-80
  • Conclusion
  • Retrospect
  • Prospect.