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Brown v Board’s Untold History: The Families Who Joined Forces to Sway SCOTUS

Meet the plaintiffs & hear the oral histories behind the 5 lawsuits that ultimately merged & led to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 education ruling

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Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Sherrilyn A. Ifill on Why We All Need to Know More About the Brave Black Students Who Integrated Schools in the 1950s

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Expert: 69 years after Brown v Board, Enduring Inequalities at America’s Schools

Dr. Juontel White delves into how racial inequities continue to impact K-12 school funding, high-stakes testing and curriculum instruction post-Brown

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Report: State by State, How Segregation Legally Continues 7 Decades Post Brown

Researchers unveil loopholes, laws & lack of protections allowing Black, brown, low-income students to be excluded from America’s most coveted schools

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Author: Marianna McMurdock
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‘The Fight Continues’: As Segregation Grows, White House Honors Brown v. Board

Brown plaintiffs, descendants, NAACP leaders meet with President Biden, urging more be done to honor Brown’s promise of quality education for all.

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Author: Marianna McMurdock

Brown v. Board: Oral Histories

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Cheryl Brown Henderson on Why Her Father Did Not Willingly Join the Historic Lawsuit & ‘Mom Was the Tipping Point’

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Nathaniel Briggs Reflects on ‘This Case out of South Carolina That Changed the Weight of the South’

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Brigitte Brown Recalls How Her Mother’s Lawsuit in Delaware Helped Win Over the Supreme Court on School Segregation

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Deborah Dandridge on How the Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Showed ‘It’s the Youth That Will Make Progress in Our Democracy’

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Joan Johns Cobbs Recalls the Virginia Student Strike That Helped Shape the Landmark School Segregation Case

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65 Years After Brown v. Board, What You Don’t Know About the 5 School Segregation Cases That Came Together at the Supreme Court

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Segregation Forever? What Supreme Court Failed to Do in ‘Brown v. Board’ Ruling

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Author: Tim DeRoche
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Before ‘Brown,’ the U.S. Had 100 Black Boarding Schools. Now, There Are 4

Sierra Lyons
Author: Sierra Lyons
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Schools are More Segregated than 30 Years Ago. But How Much?

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Author: Kevin Mahnken
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Brown v. Board, 70 Years Later: Cheryl Brown Henderson Shares Little-Known Facts

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With GOP Majority, North Carolina Court Takes on School Funding Case — Again

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The Price of Being First: Effort to Rename Brown v. Board Reveals Family’s Pain

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70 Years After Brown v. Board of Education, Public Schools Still Segregated

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The Unintended Consequence of Brown v. Board: A ‘Brain Drain’ of Black Educators

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‘Low-Hanging Fruit’: Thousands of Same-Race Schools Within Miles of Each Other

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68 Years After Brown, Schools Still ‘Highly’ Segregated: 4 Takeaways from Study

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Outlawing School Segregation Spurred Gains for CA Chicano Students, Study Finds

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Black History Month: 'Unforeseen Consequences' of Brown v. Board

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Swapping Mayoral Control for Elected School Boards Not the Smart Choice

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Critical Race Theory and the New ‘Massive Resistance’

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How We Segregate Schools Now: A 2019 Reality Check in Four Charts

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Gregory: 4 Ways Teachers in Segregated Classrooms Can Desegregate Their Students’ Learning

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Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

The Untold Stories Behind Brown v. Board: 65 Years Later, Remembering the Five Unique Lawsuits and Communities That Joined Forces to Persuade the Supreme Court

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Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

J.A. Stokes — The Student Strike That Launched One of the Most Influential Civil Rights Movements in Virginia. ‘We Jump-Started Our Own Manhattan Project’

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Brown v. Board at 65 — Adrienne Jennings Bennett on the Anticipation & Anxiety That Followed the Verdict: How Soon Would D.C. Implement School Desegregation?

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Brown v. Board at 65: Alfred L. Cobbs Recalls the Day Prince Edward County Closed Its Schools to Fight Mandatory Integration — and the Families Who Took In Those Lost Students

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Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Katherine Carper Sawyer, Daughter of Key Plaintiff, Reflects on Being Called to Testify in Court at 10 Years Old

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You’ve Heard of Thurgood Marshall & Earl Warren. Now It’s Time to Celebrate the ‘Regular’ People Who Made Brown v. Board Possible 65 Years Ago

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Phalen: Modest Reforms Are Not Enough to Give Millions of Kids a High-Quality Education. We Need Bold Action to Transform Our Schools

Earl Martin Phalen
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Ramsey: As a New Teacher, I Felt the Struggles Over Integration Firsthand — 38 Years After Desegregation Became the Law of the Land

Alicia Ramsey
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Tucker Haynes — Resisting School Integration Long After Brown v. Board: My Grade-School Memories From the Jim Crow South

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Chris Stewart: It’s Been 65 Years. Maybe It’s Time to Stop Expecting the Promise of Brown v. Board to Be Fulfilled

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El-Mekki: Black Folks, Stop Chasing White Integration. It’s Not the Surest Path to Black Student Achievement

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Jeffries: White Supremacy Made Brown v. Board Necessary — and It’s Still the Force Denying Too Many Black & Brown Students an Equal Education Today

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Oral History: Brown v. Board

Ada Stukes Adderley Reflects on Her Parents & Siblings Who Sued for Equality, and Her Pride That ‘My Family Was Involved in Such an Adventure’

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Joan Anderson Remembers Her Parents Who Sued for Equality, and What It Was Like in Delaware During the First Day of Integration

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John A. Stokes on How His School Strike Paved a Path to the Supreme Court, With the ‘Only Case That Was Student-Led’

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Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Understanding the History of America’s ‘Foundational Test of Racial and Educational Equity’ — Through the Personal Stories of Families Who Took Their Case to Court

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Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65 — Ada Stukes Adderley Still Remembers the Power of Protest: ‘Although I Was Young, I Knew That It Was Something Important. I Was Excited and Proud”

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Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Nathaniel Briggs on the Deep Roots of Southern Segregation — and Why the Supremacy of the Confederacy Still Stands Today

Nathaniel Briggs
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Lockett: 65 Years After Brown v. Board, Our Fixation on Integration Is Hiding Gross Inequities in Our Schools. We Must Focus Not Just on Whom We Teach — but on How We Teach

Phyllis Lockett
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Brown v. Board at 65: Will Schools Ever Be Integrated?

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Brigitte Louise Brown Recalls Her Mother Being Denied a Seat at Her All-White Neighborhood School — and Her Grandmother’s Victory in Fighting Back

Brigitte Louise Brown
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Joan Johns Cobbs Remembers the Day Her Sister Led a Student Protest That Went On to Change the Course of American History

Joan Johns Cobbs
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: René Michelle Ricks-Stamps Recalls Delaware’s Deep Segregation — and Her Grandmother’s Outrage in Seeing School Buses Skip Her Home

René Michelle Ricks-Stamps
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Joan E. Anderson, Daughter of Key Plaintiff, Pays Tribute to the Delaware Superintendent Who Defied State Orders to Desegregate Classrooms

Joan E. Anderson
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65 — Anderson Neff Recalls a Peaceful First Day of School Integration: ‘The White Kids Were as Unsure as to How to Behave as I Was’

Carol Anderson Neff
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Virginia Tryon Smilack Remembers Her Father Fighting for Integration on the School Board — and Her 1952 Kindergarten Teacher Treating Her Differently as a Result

Virginia Tryon Smilack