Ed Talk: The Miseducation of Black Students in Arlington : c

Ed Talk is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author’s.
Esther Cooper started the Arlington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1940 to fight for educational equality of Black students in Arlington Public Schools (APS).
Under her leadership, the NAACP sued the school board challenging the inequalities in the county’s Black high schools. In
Carter v. School Board of Arlington Co. (1950), the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, ruling that Arlington’s separate high schools constituted unlawful discrimination.
Today, 81 years after Ms. Cooper began her advocacy, 71 years after the

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