Not exact matches
After winning a unanimous decision in
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, civil rights advocates spent decades making and re-making the
case for
school desegregation.
The plaintiffs in Davis, along with others in NAACP
school desegregation suits filed in Clarendon County, South Carolina; New Castle County, Delaware; and in Washington, D.C., would eventually be added under the umbrella of a larger
desegregation case headlined by Topeka, Kansas»
Brown v. Board of Education.6
After BAEO and NAPCS released their signed letter from over 160 Black educational leaders, I had the chance to hop on the phone with a few of the signees — Cheryl Henderson
Brown, founding president and CEO of the
Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research and daughter of plaintiff Oliver
Brown of the landmark
Brown v. Board of Education
desegregation case, Sekou Biddle, UNCF's vice president of advocacy, and Steve Perry, founder and head of
schools of Capital Preparatory S
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