Brown v. Board of Education

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/13/2022
  

  How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board of Education

  by Tejai Beulah Howard

  Overcoming marginalization by male classmates, Pauli Murray made a bet with a professor that segregation could be challenged by arguing that separate was inherently unequal. Murray collected on the bet only after the 1954 ruling validated the argument, but was long denied credit. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  5/17/2022
  

  The Undiscussed Backlash to Brown v. Board: The Sidelining of Black Educators

  by Leslie T. Fenwick

  Brown v. Board was meant to ensure that children of different racial groups would share classrooms. But resistance to allowing Black teachers and principals to oversee white students' education led an estimated 100,000 Black educators to leave their profession. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/13/2022
  

  At Brown v. Board Anniversary, US Schools Remain Segregated

  by Pedro A. Noguera

  Ongoing residential segregation by race and income, along with school reforms allowing parents to exercise choice in school attendance, have contributed to ongoing patterns of segregated public education that threaten the nation's ability to create a pluralistic democracy. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/13/2021
  

  Jelani Cobb on Derrick Bell: The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

  Derrick Bell's frustrations with the limits of liberal individualism in civil rights jurisprudence pushed him to develop the important critique of institiutional racism in the law. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/7/2020
  

  60 Years Later, Ruby Bridges Tells Her Story In 'This Is Your Time'

  Ruby Bridges, whose integration of New Orleans Schools in 1960 was captured by Norman Rockwell, has written a children's history book about her experiences. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/25/2020
  

  The Case to End the Supreme Court as We Know It

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The Supreme Court has historically supported democratic and egalitarian change only when forced by social movements. People must stop looking to the power invested in the court and start looking for the power latent in themselves. 

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• SOURCE: Southern Poverty Law Center
  5/16/2020
  

  66 years after Brown v. Board, Schools Across the South are Still Separate and Unequal

  The SPLC contends that school funding programs, including vouchers and charter schools, help to preserve and extend racial segregation in the South.