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Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (Updated Edition) by Derrick A. Bell Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-19-518247-2 / 0195182472 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518247-7 / 9780195182477 When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision finding public school segregation unconstitutional could become the Holy Grail of racial justice. Fifty years later, despite its legal irrelevance and |