The Hidden History of Brown v. Board of Education

As part of the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, new and previously unaired interviews with children of the plaintiffs, shine a spotlight on the hidden cases behind the landmark Supreme Court case that changed the course of American history and sparked the beginning of the civil rights movement.
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[@Lamin_G]

The *_hidden history_* of Brown v. Board of Education _among other things._ States like Florida want to keep it that way. Despite the progress made by the Civil Rights Movement and earlier liberation struggles in ending segregation as an _official_ policy from many aspects of social life, the U.S. economy remains structurally unequal - often unofficially - and sometimes outright segregated along racial lines. Many of the rights that minorities and communities of color in the United States now take for granted were made possible by the black freedom movement.

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If left to today’s Supreme Court the schools, restaurants, hotels, hospitals, buses and trains would still be segregated. Think about that.

[@JonathanB138]

Well then Clarence Thomas wouldn't be on SCOTUS

[@Jilla0559]

@@JonathanB138Byron Donalds and Tim Scott wouldn’t be in Congress

[@JonathanB138]

@@Jilla0559 That's true. Neither would Sheila Lee Jackson, Maxine Waters and others

[@calicosta]

And what’s wrong with that? Unless you think black Americans aren’t capable of controlling their own establishments?

[@Jilla0559]

My Mother; Barbara Covington a former Canadian minister. was a Civil Rights activist 1954 - 1975. She was amazing

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