Q&A with Rachel Louise Martin
Historian Rachel Louise Martin, author of A Most Tolerant Little Town, talked about the experiences of the students in Tennessee who desegregated the first school in the south following Brow…
572 viewsHistorian Rachel Louise Martin, author of A Most Tolerant Little Town, talked about the experiences of the students in Tennessee who desegregated the first school in the south following Brow…
572 viewsYale University law Professor Justin Driver talked about the 1956 “Southern Manifesto,” a document written by congressional members opposed to the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Boa…
1,131 viewsMs. Morrison talked about her book, Remember: The Journey to School Integration, published by Houghton Mifflin Company. In the book, which is intended primarily for young readers, the autho…
1,250 viewsJim Newton talked about his biography, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, published by Riverhead. He recounted the life of Earl Warren, the chief justice of the United Stat…
1,380 viewsJeffrey Rosen and Tomiko Brown-Nagin talked about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, in which the court unanimously ruled that separate public schools were not equ…
28,011 viewsThis 1956 film documents the response of St. Louis to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision and the difficult process of integrating the city’s public schools. Charles Guggenheim…
994 viewsThe House debated, and later unanimously passed, a measure to mark the 60th anniversary of the “Little Rock Nine.” The bill expands the boundary of the Little Rock Central High School Histor…
167 viewsJustin Sochacki gave a tour of Monroe Elementary School, one of the four formerly segregated schools for African Americans in Topeka, Kansas, and talked about the Brown v. Board of Education…
1,140 viewsSteve Perry, founder of Capital Preparatory Schools, talked about the disparities in the public school educational system. In his remarks he said the current state of education is driven by …
1,025 viewsPanelists talked about progress after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, and the current state of school choice, educational opportunity, and integration. “Where Are …
380 viewsCommunity advocates recalled their childhood experiences leading up to and after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that struck down the doctrine of separate but equal es…
879 viewsEducators and historians examined the impact of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which lead to the end of segregation in public schools.
1,095 viewsPanelists talked about innovation in education to mark the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. The educators presented ideas on how innovation could help …
174 viewsEducation scholars talked about demographic changes in K-12 public schools since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. They spoke about how to improve the quality of edu…
187 viewsPanelists talked about the effectiveness of the Brown v. Board of Education II ruling and its lasting effects. In the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case, the Supreme Co…
636 viewsRawn James profiles Charles Hamilton Houston, the first African American on the Harvard Law Review and dean of Howard University Law School and his student Thurgood Marshall, valedictorian o…
940 viewsProfessor Charles Ogletree talked about his book, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education, published by W.W. Norton. On May 17, 1954, the S…
2,381 viewsAttorney General Eric Holder spoke at an NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund luncheon commemorating the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Following Attorney General Holde…
908 viewsSherrilyn Ifill talked by remote video from New York City about the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case’s 60th anniversary, the effects of school desegregation in the U.S., and th…
513 viewsTelephone lines were open for viewer comments on the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education on the question “School Segregation: Still an Issue?” …
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