“Although the legal battle was won many years ago, the goal of equal educational opportunity for our children remains elusive,” she writes. She comes at the case, and its impact, from a unique perspective: She was in the room when her mother heard the news of the Court’s decision she grew up in its immediate aftermath and witnessed in real-time its impacts (and failures) and she has dedicated her life to helping the nation grapple with and interpret its legacy. Her father, Oliver, is the case’s namesake (an accident of history, and possibly misogyny, she writes), and at the time her piece was published she was executive director of the Brown Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. Board, Cheryl Brown Henderson contributed an essay that added a personal dimension to the decision. In the Fall 2003 issue of The College Board Review, which was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board was a major victory for civil rights and equality in education, and it’s the rare Supreme Court case so consequential that it has entered the firmament of everyday American conversation.

Wade would be up there, too.) The landmark unanimous decision, delivered in 1954 by Chief Justice Earl Warren, desegregated America’s public schools by finding the principle of “separate but equal,” outlined in the 1896 Plessy v. Board of Education of Topeka would surely be on it. Rushmore of Supreme Court decisions, Brown v.

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