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Board of Education, in 1954. Linda Brown Smith, Ethel Louise Belton Brown ... Houston and Thurgood Marshall, the architects of the NAACP's legal strategies. Marshall would later become the ...
Mary Brown, the first Black person elected to the Pinellas County school board, died March 29 in Pinellas Park. She was 89 ...
at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education Case, was the legal counsel for the NAACP, and so with his bravery, with the tenacity and with the research that’s afforded, the negative effects ...
HB793/SB836, a proposed bill, with one version requiring proof of citizenship before enrolling students in Tennessee schools, challenges a fundamental right: access to education.
One example of this collaboration came 70 years ago, when NAACP Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall secured a landmark victory for civil rights in the Supreme Court—Brown v. Board of Education.
The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v. Bradley, which torpedoed a plan that would have integrated public schools.
It’s about building collective power to protect and fight for Black and Brown communities ... Later that month, the NAACP National Board of Directors placed the branch under the administration ...
Lathardus Goggins II, education chair of the Akron NAACP, raised concerns about the revisions, urging the board to maintain its commitment to racial equity. He also stressed his belief that ...
Brown v. Board of Education was first argued before the United ... U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, then-head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In his argument, Marshall asked the ...