Brown v. Board of Education

Mr. Patterson led a panel discussion about his book Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, published by Oxford University Press. The book revisits the May 1954 Supreme Court decision that struck down racial segregation in America’s public schools, and looks at its influence on the Civil Rights movement and on education some fifty years later. Professor Patterson also writes about the people involved in all sides of the decision. Professor Patterson is joined in this discussion by Dr. Desmond and others. Mr. Willie is the author of Black Power/White Power in Public Education, published by Praeger Publishers. Ms. Eaton is co-author of Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education and author of The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line. Mr. Kennedy is the author of Race, Crime and the Law, published by Pantheon Books. After their discussion the panelists answered questions close