List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Maps
1. Introduction
2. Background: Regime Politics and the Purest Strain of the Southern Booster Gene
3. Swann's Way and the Heyday of Charlotte's Busing Plan
4. Swan Song for the Busing Plan?
5. Political Fluidity and the Alchemy of School Reform
6. Desegregation Buried in Potter's Field? The Reactivation of the Swann Case
7. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Compromise?
8. School Desegregation and the Uphill Flow of Civic Capacity
Appendix
Notes
Index