"Happy" Birthday, "Brown v. Board of Education?" "Brown's" Fiftieth Anniversary and the New Critics of Supreme Court Muscularity

Abstract

EN years ago Professor Michael J. Klarman published an article entitled “Brown, Racial Change, and the Civil Rights Movement” in the Virginia Law Review. Portions of Professor Klarman’s argument were so notable that another discipline’s most widely read scholarly publication, the Journal of American History (“JAH”), printed a briefer version of Klarman’s interpretation just four months later. Professor Klarman’s Virginia Law Review article was accompanied by critical commentaries by this writer, Professor Gerald N. Rosenberg, and Professor Mark Tushnet, and a reply by Professor