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From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy (Constitutional Conflicts) (1st Edition) by Peter F. Lau (Editor), Neal Devins (Series Editor), Mark A. Graber (Series Editor), Vicki L. Ruiz, Raymond Gavins, Kara Milesturner, Larissa M. Smith, Patricia Sullivan, Christopher W. Schmidt, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Madeleine E. Lopez, Waldo E. Martin, Laurie B. Green Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-8223-3449-6 / 0822334496 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3449-1 / 9780822334491 Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and le |