Michigan Law professor Michelle Adams is an expert on race discrimination and related subjects.
By Bob Needham
Michigan Law
Professor Michelle Adams’s book exploring a landmark school desegregation case is the 2025 winner of the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History Boston | Nantucket.
Her book, The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North (Macmillan, 2025), details the history and impact of Milliken v. Bradley, the landmark Detroit school desegregation case that effectively ended the era of Brown v. Board of Education. Beyond the case’s specifics, the book also offers a broader look at how Jim Crow laws were implemented and maintained in the northern United States.
The Stone Book Award includes a $50,000 prize. The award will be presented October 9 in Boston, and the event—featuring a live conversation between Adams and broadcast journalist Callie Crossley—will be livestreamed.
“This is an extraordinary honor, and I’m thrilled and delighted to receive it,” Adams said.
Adams, the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law, is an expert on race discrimination and related subjects. She has taught courses on constitutional law; the First Amendment; and race, law, and history. She also won the 2024 L. Hart Wright Teaching Award—the oldest of the annual student-nominated awards presented by the Law School Student Senate.
Founded in 1967, the Museum of African American History Boston | Nantucket “inspires all generations to embrace and interpret the authentic stories of New Englanders of African descent, and those who found common cause with them, in their quest for freedom and justice,” according to its website. The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, the cosponsor of the award, promotes “a more knowledgeable and inclusive society, with a special emphasis on environmental sustainability and the mitigation of wealth inequality.”
Michigan Law
Professor Michelle Adams’s book exploring a landmark school desegregation case is the 2025 winner of the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History Boston | Nantucket.
Her book, The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North (Macmillan, 2025), details the history and impact of Milliken v. Bradley, the landmark Detroit school desegregation case that effectively ended the era of Brown v. Board of Education. Beyond the case’s specifics, the book also offers a broader look at how Jim Crow laws were implemented and maintained in the northern United States.
The Stone Book Award includes a $50,000 prize. The award will be presented October 9 in Boston, and the event—featuring a live conversation between Adams and broadcast journalist Callie Crossley—will be livestreamed.
“This is an extraordinary honor, and I’m thrilled and delighted to receive it,” Adams said.
Adams, the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law, is an expert on race discrimination and related subjects. She has taught courses on constitutional law; the First Amendment; and race, law, and history. She also won the 2024 L. Hart Wright Teaching Award—the oldest of the annual student-nominated awards presented by the Law School Student Senate.
Founded in 1967, the Museum of African American History Boston | Nantucket “inspires all generations to embrace and interpret the authentic stories of New Englanders of African descent, and those who found common cause with them, in their quest for freedom and justice,” according to its website. The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, the cosponsor of the award, promotes “a more knowledgeable and inclusive society, with a special emphasis on environmental sustainability and the mitigation of wealth inequality.”
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