70 Years Later: Brown vs Board of Ed of Topeka, KA

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70 years later, 1 in 3 Black people say integration didn’t help Black students

Landmark Brown. v. Board Supreme Court decision is revered, but Post-Ipsos poll shows mixed feelings about how to address today’s school segregation

By Laura Meckler, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement
May 17, 2024


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CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON

The first general counsel of NAACP, Charles Hamilton Houston exposed the hollowness of the "separate but equal" doctrine and paved the way for the Supreme Court ruling outlawing school segregation. The legal brilliance used to undercut the "separate but equal" principle and champion other civil rights cases earned Houston the moniker "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow."

naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/charles-hamilton-houston

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THURGOOD MARSHALL

Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice. He is best known for arguing the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional in public schools.

naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/thurgood-marshall

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The following school districts were included in the case.

Clarendon County, SC

Washington, DC

Farmville, VA

Wilmington, DE


www.nps.gov/brvb/learn/historyculture/fivecases.htm

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As an instructor at Howard University, James Nabrit Jr. taught the first formal civil rights law course offered in the country. After receiving degrees from Morehouse College and Northwestern University Law School, he joined the Howard University law faculty in 1936. While teaching at Howard University, he had Robert Carter and Spottswood Robinson as students, each of which would go on to contribute to civil rights law by arguing portions of the Brown case.

www.nps.gov/people/james-nabrit-jr.htm

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NC’s public schools are now more racially segregated than they were in the 1980s

BY T. KEUNG HUI

UPDATED MAY 17, 2024

But 35 years later, the report found that patterns of segregation have increased even though North Carolina’s school enrollment is now more diverse.

▪ More than two-thirds of the state’s white public school students attend a school with a majority white population even though white students only make up 45% of the overall enrollment.

▪ The number of intensely segregated schools of color, defined as at least 90% of the enrollment being students of color, rose to 13.9% in 2021.

▪ One in four Black students and nearly one in five Hispanic students are attending an intensely segregated school of color.

Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article288480851.html#storylink=cpy

Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article288480851.html#storylink=cpy

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May 17, 2024 12:55:07 GMT -5 jbrob said:

The following school districts were included in the case.

Clarendon County, SC

Washington, DC

Farmville, VA

Wilmington, DE


www.nps.gov/brvb/learn/historyculture/fivecases.htm

The Five Cases
The Brown v. Board decision didn't stem from a single case. The challenge to racial segregation in public schools arose several times from communities all across the country. Five of those communities, along with the NAACP, bravely sought the elimination of segregation in the United States in pursuit of true equality.

They shared a common goal, and were bundled together by the Supreme Court. These cases led to a single ruling on a national issue that would transform American society forever.

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NC schools are struggling with segregation 70 years after Brown v. Board, new research shows

www.wral.com/story/nc-schools-are-struggling-with-segregation-70-years-after-brown-v-board-new-research-shows/21436762/