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As @NAACP_LDF honored the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision on its 60th anniversary in 2015, issues in Gardendale, Alabama that same year shows that the fight for educational equality is far from over. #DecadeRewind #BrownvBoard
Along with the Honorable U.W. Clemon, LDF litigated the appeal to the ruling in Stout v. Jefferson, which allowed the predominantly white Gardendale to partially secede from racially diverse Jefferson County. #DecadeRewind naacpldf.org/press-release/…
“We will continue doing everything in our power to ensure that state and local governments facilitate the integration of all children.” --@SamSpital, Director of Litigation #DecadeRewind naacpldf.org/press-release/…
UPDATE: Gardendale has been ordered to pay $850K in legal fees. “[T]hese cases are reminders of the painstaking efforts that black citizens have had to undertake to gain access to public schools that were reserved by law for white citizens” google.com/amp/s/www.al.c…
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