National director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP Dr. Ivory Toldson and executive director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative Dr. Adrienne Dixson speak with professor of education leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, Sonya Douglass about the state of educational equity in America nearly seventy years after Brown vs Board of Education.
Learn why it took decades to integrate public schools even after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and how local communities and school boards delayed and obstructed compliance with court integration orders. Find Classroom Resource at PBS LearningMedia
Twenty years after the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, most schools across the country hadn’t integrated. Then the courts stepped in, again.
Journalist Kimberly Robinson and author Evan Thomas speak with Historian Monica Muñoz Martinez about the power of the Supreme Court in shaping the nation’s laws.
