The legacy of segregation : what Brown meant in Merced -- Stanford -- Boston -- Life before Brown -- Defeating Jim Crow -- Two paths of justice : Marshall v. King -- Celebrating Brown's successes -- Resistance to Brown -- Brown's critics -- Reversing the Brown mandate : the Bakke challenge -- Marshall and my father -- The legacy of Thurgood Marshall -- The end of an era -- The rise of Clarence Thomas -- Who's getting lynched? : Hill v. Thomas -- Justice Thomas : a new era in race matters -- The Michigan cases : mixed signals -- Redefining the race paradigm -- Reparations -- Fifty years after Brown : measuring progress in race matters.