Prologue : the Supreme Court and racial inequality in American history -- The Supreme Court and slavery, 1800-1860 -- Reconstruction and the Supreme Court, 1862-1880 -- Redemption, 1880-1900 -- The nadir and the blue hour, 1900-1920 -- Civil rights and civil liberties between the wars, 1920-1940 -- War and Cold War, 1941-1953 -- The second Reconstruction, 1954-1971 -- Right turn, 1960-1980 -- The resegregation of America's schools -- The death of affirmative action -- Redemption redux, 1972-2015 -- Epilogue : "the gloomy past".
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