1. Introduction: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights 1 -- 2. The Meaning of Freedom 35 -- 3. The First Cases 71 -- 4. From Pace to Plessy: If Not Slavery--What? 117 -- 5. American Apartheid 156 -- 6. The Court and the "Golden Age of Segregation" 195 -- 7. From Scottsboro to Gaines 223 -- 8. The Road to Brown 267 -- 9. Brown v. Board of Education 300 -- 10. The Post-Brown Era 331.