🚨 Tomorrow is the 66th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education the case that struck down "separate but equal." The hard-fought victory won by LDF attorneys & founder Thurgood Marshall redefined equality & justice in America.
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Meet the legal minds behind #BrownvBoard:
LDF founder Thurgood Marshall was the key strategist in the effort to end racial segregation. Marshall constantly traveled to courtrooms throughout the South at one point, overseeing as many as 450 simultaneous cases.
Jack Greenberg succeeded Thurgood Marshall as LDF’s second Director-Counsel from 1961-84.
At 27-years-old, Greenberg became the youngest member of the team of lawyers that brought the #BrownvBoard school desegregation cases to the Supreme Court.
Constance Baker Motley earned her reputation as the chief courtroom strategist of the civil rights movement. She successfully litigating cases that ended segregation in various southern locales.
Motley later became the first black woman to serve as a federal judge.
After his release from the army in 1944, Carter became a legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall, & the following year assistant special counsel.
Carter served as lead attorney in the Topeka school desegregation case, 1 of the 5 cases which were consolidated to form #BrownvBoard.
Oliver Hill attended @HowardUniv & @howardlawschool where he graduated with close friend Thurgood Marshall.
Hill argued the Davis case, a lawsuit on behalf of students protesting terrible conditions at their segregated high schoo, which became 1 of 5 cases decided under Brown.
Charles Hamilton Houston played an invaluable role in dismantling segregation and mentoring the crop of civil rights lawyers who would ultimately litigate & win #BrownvBoard. At @howardlawschool, he served as Thurgood Marshall’s mentor & his eventual employer at @NAACP_LDF.
James Nabrit Jr. graduated from @Morehouse & @NorthwesternLaw. He taught at @howardlawschool & was credited with creating the 1st formal civil rights course in any US law school. Nabrit's most substantial legal victory was Bolling v. Sharpe, one of the cases decided in Brown.
At LDF, Spottswood Robinson III was involved in #BrownvBoard litigation, and Chance v. Lambeth, which challenged racial segregation in interstate transportation, in addition to spearheading the Virginia desegregation case in Brown.
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