The ruling that changed America / Juan Williams -- I: Its impact on law -- 1. Crumbs from the table of plenty: Brown and the ongoing struggle from educational equity in American schools / Gloria J. Browne-Marshall -- 2. Implications of the 1993 Brown III case on Topeka public schools / Judith Lynne McConnell, Blythe Hinitz & Gloria A. Dye -- 3. South Carolina: winning the battle over De Jure segregation, losing the war over De Facto segregation / Jackie R. Booker -- 4. Brown and gender discrimination / Elizabeth Davenport -- The jurisprudential impact of Brown v. Board of education / Kevin H. Smith -- II: Its impact on historically black colleges and universities -- 6. Trapped in the back of the bus: black colleges, the courts and desegregation rulings / Saran Donahoo & Denise O. Green -- 7. An examination of the struggle for equity in higher education: litigation in the Ayers v. Fordice case in Mississippi / Andrew Ann Dinkins Lee -- 8. The impact of Brown v. Board of education on black colleges: the tragedy of a dream deferred / Amiri Yasin Al-Hadid -- 9. The impact of the Brown decision on public HBCUs / Mickey L. Burnim -- 10. The Brown decision in local context: race and public education in Norfolk, Virginia / Jeffrey Lynn Littlejohn -- 11. Leveling the playing field: the challenge of preparing globally competent African-American college graduates / Roberta J. Wilburn.