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Roach, Ronald – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
When asked by Thurgood Marshall during the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case to join a team of scholars to answer questions posed by the U.S. Supreme Court about the intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, Dr. John Hope Franklin didn't hesitate to accept. This document contains personal accounts of the famous…
Descriptors: African Americans, United States History, Historians, Constitutional Law
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Landman, James H. – Social Education, 2004
On May 17, 2004, the United States will observe the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. By invalidating the doctrine of "separate but equal" in the field of public education, a doctrine that had been approved by the same court nearly sixty years earlier in Plessy…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, United States History, Desegregation Litigation, School Segregation