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The truth. On the 70th anniversary of this history-defining case, here are 10 unwhitewashed facts you probably didn’t know about Brown ... Thurgood Marshall was not the attorney for Brown v. Board.
The original Brown v. Board of Education case was also litigated by lawyers with the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, the nation’s first civil rights law firm, which Marshall founded in 1940.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
The 70-year anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case also marks the first year without race-conscious admissions in universities.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide is a 2016 nonfiction book by Emory University Professor Carol Anderson, who was contracted to write the book after reactions to an op-ed that she had written for The Washington Post in 2014.
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, written by Richard Kluger and published by Alfred A. Knopf in two volumes 1975 and in a single-volume edition in 1976, [1] [2] was a finalist for the 1977 National Book Award in the History category. [3]
In Topeka, Kansas — where the Brown v. Board case was initially litigated — the public school system has diversified considerably and is the most diverse district in the state of Kansas.
The Pound Cake speech (or Ghettoesburg Address) [1] [2] was given by Bill Cosby on May 17, 2004, during an NAACP Legal Defense Fund awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. [3] [4]