LAWRENCE — Former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president Sherilyn Ifill said the nation should celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court as overdue recognition of the necessity to end legal apartheid in the United States. Ifill, speaking to a diverse audience Friday at […] The post Civil rights attorney: Legal action to ‘hollow out’ Brown v. Board moves at deliberate speed appeared first on Kansas Reflector.
Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are the whites who stood by quietly, and those who approved of the changes.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – For more than 100 years schools in America were segregated based on race. In 1954 everything would change with the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. Although they didn’t know it at the time, people in Charlotte would play a major role in what desegregated schooling […]
Author and journalist Tim Spofford offers up a compelling biography of two young Black psychologists, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, whose contributions in civil rights for Blacks and the children of their race have largely gone unnoticed.