"As the nation reflects on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination today, we also mourn the loss of another legendary civil rights activist, Linda Brown, who died last week. As a little girl in 1954, she was at the center of one of the most consequential cases in the history of the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education. In Brown, the court unanimously declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional, and Brown kept fighting to desegregate schools throughout her life."
But why did Linda Brown dedicate her life to a fight she’d supposedly already won?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.An interesting fact...Brown v Board of education TOPEKA KANSAS. Many assume this case involved a southern state but it involved a state we would assume was more enlightened as to racial prejudice. So even after Brown v Board of ED 1954, there was much work to do and still people of color have not yet entered the promised land of equality.
nicknotes
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Apr 5, 2018
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the key word in your statement is "supposedly"
btroje
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Apr 5, 2018
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Yes, and now we're heading right back into the fifties and many of our politicians are chortling all the way to the bank.
Linda Brown saw how the South got away with segregation by allowing whites choice of schools for their children. The North stayed segregated longer because of segregated housing where kids went to neighborhood urban shools.
In Mass. we had a program called METCO where black kids from Dorchester and Roxbury were bused to the suburbs including my town Sharon, MA. I became friends with a couple of these kids. My best friend's boyfriend became the center of the team and with half the kids on the team from Metco we had one of the best basketball teams in the state..
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sassygirl3869
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Apr 5, 2018
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this is exactly what I was thinking about
Did you live outside Boston?
I've traveled extensively in the lower 48 states due to my two military husbands and found that prejudge changed depending on who the most substantial minority was. For example, growing up in the Arctic, Black people weren't mainly looked down on. It was the Natives who were unfairly categorized as drunks and shifty.
Then when they dared to bring a court case against the state for ownership of their lands and to keep their children out of mandatory religious boarding schools, many were stunned. When they won and became a significant voting block, suddenly politicians came courting, and that prejudge slid underground. When will we, if ever, judge a person on actions rather than race, sex, color or creed or even disability?
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