Plessy's long shadow -- Brown's half light -- Brown reconceived : an alternative scenario -- The racial sacrifice covenants -- The interest-convergance covenants -- Brown as an anti-communist decision -- Racism's economic foundation -- School litigation in the nineteenth century -- The school desegregation era -- The end of Brown era -- Brown as landmark : an assessment -- Affirmative Action and racial fortuities in action -- Searching for effective schools in the post-Brown era -- Moving beyond racial fortuity.