A Storm Over This Court: Law, Politics, and Supreme Court Decision Making in Brown v. Board of Education (2013) by Jeffrey D. Hockett

The Brown v. the Board of Education decision of 1954 is considered a watershed moment not only for U.S. legal history but also for that country's modern history.Often referred to simply as Brown, the decision is still considered one of the key events of the nation's history through the mid-20th century.The case was actually named after the first of five plaintiffs from around the American South and Midwest who petitioned the federal government for constitutional rights to equal public education.As such, Brown did mark a period of change in American race relations for the better.The decision's centrality to this history rings true especially in relation to the acclaimed campaigns for rights waged by African American communities throughout the U.S. South, where legal or Jim Crow racial segregation existed from the mid-to-late-19th century.Brown became the signpost for impending social change during the 1950s and culminated in the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965.Collectively, this body of legal jurisprudence and congressional legislation ostensibly protected 14th Amendment rights once and for all.The march toward social change during this period was of course famously led by figures and organizations like Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other church and student based movements who came to symbolize civil rights struggles in the United States to the world.The Brown decision did legally overturn the separate but equal doctrine that had been enshrined in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896 wherein Jim Crow forms of racial segregation in public accommodations, transit, restaurants, schools, etc., were enabled by the highest court of the land.After the Brown decision, ongoing racial inequalities rooted in longstanding forms of economic injustic continued.As such, many scholars of civil rights and education now look to broader chronologies, periodizations, and regional foci, notably through studies of racial injustice in northern urban areas where discrimination was more subtle, beyond the southern-based locales that Brown helped highlight (Hall, 2005).Still, because of its signal impact, the Brown decision remains a major point of departure and discussion for many about the history of this period.As a result of its prominence in various historical literatures, the Brown decision has attracted a great deal of attention.As Jeffrey D. Hockett's A Storm Over This Court: Law, Politics, and Supreme Court Decision Making in Brown v. Board of Education (2013) demonstrates, interpretations of the case are invariably precise and highly focused in form since the scholarly work that needs to be marshaled in any new study of the subject is vast.Hockett's

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