Kermit L. Hall, North Carolina State University.

• Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; A Historical Review of Affirmative Action and the Interpretation of Its Legislative Intent by the Supreme Court ; The Cherokee Cases: A Study in Law, Politics, and Morality ; Bradwell v. State: Some Reflections Prompted by Myra Bradwell's Hard Case That Made "Bad Law"; Sex Equality, Sex Differences, and the Supreme Court; Separate but not Equal: The Supreme Court's First Decision on Racial Discrimination in Schools; The Rise and Fall of Supreme Court Concern for Racial Minorities ; The Burger Court and the Civil Rights Movement: The Supreme Court Giveth and the Supreme Court Taketh Away ; Public Law Litigation and the Ambiguities of Brown; Rites of Passage: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution; Slavery and Abolition Before the United States Supreme Court, 1820-1860; The Supreme Court, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Three Faces of Constitutional Equality; Acknowledgments