A Gala Event; Commemorating Brown v Board of Education at Fifty 1954-2004
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Howard University, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 64 pages. Illustrations. Format is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. This is the program from a gala "Honoring the Heroes of the Landmark Decision". Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. The Court's unanimous decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." De jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Howard University is a federally chartered, historically black university in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Howard offers more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law firm. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, LDF was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process of law were stifled by widespread state-sponsored racial inequality. LDF’s mission has always been transformative: to achieve racial justice, equality, and an inclusive society. LDF’s victories established the foundations for the civil rights that all Americans enjoy today. In its first two decades, LDF undertook a coordinated legal assault against officially enforced public school segregation. This campaign culminated in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine of legally sanctioned discrimination, widely known as Jim Crow. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Charles Hamilton Houston, Ozzie Davis, Ruby Dee, Phylicia Rashad, Kweisi Mfume, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Jimmy Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Bill Cosby, Camille Cosby, Dick Gregory, Edward Kennedy, Cicely Tyson, Douglas Wilder, Jack Kemp, Dennis Hays
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