Foreword. Introduction. Chapter 1. Education of African Americans Amid Anti-Black Political and Social Governance. Chapter 2. African American Educational Activism in St. Louis, 1865-1927. Chapter 3.

A Harsher Jim Crow Grows: Racial Politics and Containment, 1916-1954. Chapter 4. District Responds to Brown With Prompt but Paltry Action, 1954-1964. Chapter 5. Deep District Duplicity Over Brown, 1954-1964. Chapter 6. The Road to Full Disengagement From Brown Compliance, 1960s. Appendix A.

Intact Busing Routes. Appendix B. Mapping and Pictorial Presentation of the Branch School Buildings Constructed in the 1950s in the St. Louis Public Schools District. Appendix C. New Schools Constructed With Funds From the 1962 Bond Issue. About the Authors.