After Brown, the NAACP litigated thousands of cases on behalf of displaced Black educators and pressured the Nixon administration, the U.S. They were among the 100,000 exceptionally credentialed Black principals and teachers illegally purged from desegregating schools in the wake of Brown.Īs early as 1952, NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall knew that Black educators’ jobs would be threatened given the racist strictures and customs of the Southern and border states. But we don’t know about Pressley Giles, Mary Preyer, Virgil Coleman and Jewel Butler. We know about Linda Brown and Ruby Bridges. Or we may recall the tumult of busing in the South - Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia… and even much further north of the Mason-Dixon Line in South Boston, too.īut there is plenty that we have not been taught about Brown, which turns 68 today, or how it continues to impact us. Marshals past a wall splattered with tomatoes and a racial slur. We may remember the famed Norman Rockwell painting featuring 6-year-old Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. We may think about Linda Brown, the plaintiff in Brown, a little girl forced to walk miles to a segregated Black school instead of attending the white school down the block. Board of Education decision in one of three ways. Today, most Americans think about the segregation-shattering 1954 Brown v. A former Harvard University Visiting Scholar, she also serves as Dean in Residence at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). She is dean emerita of the Howard University School of Education where she is a tenured professor of education policy. Fenwick, PhD, is author of Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2022).
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