Opinion: Brown v. Board, 70 Years Later: Cheryl Brown Henderson shares little-known facts yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
As the nation celebrates the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, often recalled as one that “forever changed the course of American history,” the story behind this historic Supreme Court case is much more complex than the highly inaccurate but often-repeated tale about how the lawsuit began.