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The #BrownvBoard ruling followed an arduous, spirited, and inspired legal strategy pioneered by Charles Hamilton Houston: taking aim at segregation and the pernicious precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson through a series of challenges throughout the country. #BlackHistoryMonth
The Supreme Court declared the longstanding doctrine “separate but equal” unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), one of the most important and celebrated legal cases in American history. #BlackHistoryMonth2019
Houston died in 1950, but his protégée Thurgood Marshall continued to carry the torch, litigating Brown, a coordinated effort which linked five lawsuits against school districts in Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. #BHM 
Among the brilliant legal team put together by Thurgood Marshall was LDF’s future second Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg and Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman appointed as a federal judge. #BlackHistoryMonth2019
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark case, a crucial turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and a model for future litigation in bringing about societal change. Most of all, it gave hope to millions of Americans in seeing the dream of equal education realized. #BHM
