Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
It is often accidental whose name gets attributed. There was another woman on the list of plaintiffs. For some reason oliver browns name was listed first. He is one of those 13 parents that was were recruited. There are five cases that included over 200 plaintiffs total. We referred to it by the brown family when they were one piece of a much lanchrger story. This tells a story in that the facilities were excellent. When a lot of people walk in the building if they are old enough to remember going to kindergarten it looks like the one they attended whether they were white or black. The facilities were excellent. It serves to remind people that education is about being in a safe place where you can learn from people who are sympatheticsympathetic to you and understand you. This was an excellent educational experience. When they go out and see the exhibits and see photographs of what schools were like in south carolina, virginia, in the district of kol lcolumbia then can begin to questio
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
It is often accidental whose name gets attributed. There was another woman on the list of plaintiffs. For some reason oliver browns name was listed first. He is one of those 13 parents that was were recruited. There are five cases that included over 200 plaintiffs total. We referred to it by the brown family when they were one piece of a much lanchrger story. This tells a story in that the facilities were excellent. When a lot of people walk in the building if they are old enough to remember going to kindergarten it looks like the one they attended whether they were white or black. The facilities were excellent. It serves to remind people that education is about being in a safe place where you can learn from people who are sympatheticsympathetic to you and understand you. This was an excellent educational experience. When they go out and see the exhibits and see photographs of what schools were like in south carolina, virginia, in the district of kol lcolumbia then can begin to questio
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s