Tag: Brown v. Board

On May 10, 2019, the Center for Education & Civil Rights and the Africana Research Center at Penn State hosted Brown@65, a national conference for the 65th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. An earlier AJE Forum post summarized the panel presentations from the day. This post, meanwhile, focuses on the keynote, delivered by New York

For those advocating for desegregation in 2019, I suggest returning to a civil rights lawyer’s interest in causation. These attorneys insisted on speaking of desegregation not only in terms of individual and collective racism, but in terms of nameable, consequential, enduring policy choices. If we were to do so today, I believe, it would be