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Brown v. Board of Education: Separate Is Not Equal
Presented by Sherif Girgis

It's no exaggeration to say that the modern Civil Rights Movement began with the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education.

That the case reached the Court was a testament to a nation's desire to correct a longstanding injustice and, at the same time, an indictment for allowing the injustice to have existed for so long.

Although the Union victory in the Civil War freed black Americans from slavery, it did not free them from racism. Southern Democrats soon imposed Jim Crow laws to deny black Americans the right to vote and to segregate them from whites.

Even after large numbers of black Americans served in both World Wars, especially in World War II, social and material equality for white and black citizens was far from a reality.

For example, schools across the nation were, for the most part, segregated by race. These segregation policies had found their legal refuge in the infamous 1896 Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, which created the doctrine of separate but equal.

That was the legal theory. It was rarely the practice. Black schools were almost always inferior. That was still true in the late 1940s and early 1950s. And it outraged many fair-minded people.

One of those people was Thurgood Marshall, the founder of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. That Plessy had