All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown V. Board of Education, (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

You could call All Deliberate Speed a history book as it is filled with didactic chapters and faculty could use it as a textbook, but I would argue it is more of a beautifully written memoir. Ogletree shares his personal reflections on the civil rights decision of Brown v. Board of Education, the...

from marywhisner

Ogletree combines memoir with legal commentary, since he lived or was affected by civil rights milestones: segregated elementary school (Merced, CA) followed by newly-integrated high school; founding of a black student group at Stanford; fundraising for Angela Davis's defense; Shockley on the fac...

from urhockey22

An outstanding book. Both a legal work and a book of personal reflection. This is a fascinating story about life in the struggle for equality and an autobiography of an amazing man that is not yet done watching and making history.

from urhockey22

An outstanding book. Both a legal work and a book of personal reflection. This is a fascinating story about life in the struggle for equality and an autobiography of an amazing man that is not yet done watching and making history.