Introduction: Educating the Fragment Metropolis
1. Suburban and Urban Schools: Two Sides of a National Metropolitan Coin
2. Uniting and Dividing a Heartland Metropolis: Growth and Inequity in Postwar Kansas City
3. Fall from Grace: The Transformation of an Urban School System
4. Racialized Advantage: The Missouri Suburban School Districts
5. Conflict in Suburbia: Localism, Race, and Education in Johnson County, Kansas
Epilogue: An Enduring Legacy of Inequality

John L. Rury is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History at the University of Kansas. He is an author or editor of ten other books on the history of education, including Education and Social Change, Urban Education in the United States, and The African American Struggle for Secondary Schooling, 1940-1980 (with Shirley A. Hill).