Introduction / Annette Gordon-Reed
The impact of the Amistad case on race and law in America (1841) / Howard Jones
The Dred Scott case (1857) / Xi Wang
Celia's case (1857) / Annette Gordon-Reed
Race, identity and the law: Plessy v. Ferguson(1896) / Thomas J. Davis
Jack Johnson versus the American racial hierarchy (1913) / Denise C. Morgan
Twenty years on trial: Takuji Yamashita's struggle for citizenship (1922) / Gabriel J. Chin
A white woman's word: the Scottsboro case (1931) / P.J. Ling
Koematsu v. United States revisited: 1944 and 1983 (1944) / Roger daniels
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) / Mark Tushnet
Interracial marriage on trial: loving v. Virginia (1967) / Peter Wallenstein
Race, affirmative action, and higher education on trial: Regents v. Bakke (1978) / Howard Ball
Black and white: the O.J. Simson case (1995) / Walter L. Hixson.
