#tdih 1954 Decades of strategic planning and brave actions by students, teachers, principals, lawyers, and community members led to the historic SCOTUS #BrownvBoard ruling. See just a few of countless stories in thread below. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/brow…
The Brown v. Board ruling had a long history. For example, in 1848, African American Benjamin Roberts filed the first school desegregation suit after his daughter Sarah was barred from a "white school" in Boston, Massachusetts. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/benj…
#BrownvBoard Chinese American families in the Mississippi Delta petitioned against school segregation all the way to the Supreme Court. They lost in 1927 in Lum v. Rice. #AAPIHM zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/case…
#BrownvBoard Latino families in California challenged school segregation in the case of Mendez v. Westminister. With the help of Thurgood Marshall, they won in 1947. (Not that long ago since you can follow plaintiff @sylviafmendez) zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mend…
In 1951, 16-yr-old Barbara Johns led her classmates in carefully organized strike to protest the substandard conditions in Prince Edward County, VA. (In 1959, post #BrownvBoard, schools were closed rather than desegregate in "massive [white] resistance.") zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/barb…
Key figure leading up to #BrownvBoard ruling is Charles Hamilton Houston. He established an accredited, full-time law program at @HowardU with focus on civil rights to prepare lawyers, including Thurgood Marshall, to lead fight against racial injustice. zinnedproject.org/materials/road…
It is also important to learn about “the crucial role Black educators played in the evolution of public education in the South” and the movement to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson that led to #BrownvBoard. See interview with Vanessa Siddle Walker by @mdawriter theatlantic.com/education/arch…
Black teachers, principals, & parents also organized to ensure children received best possible education before & after #BrownvBoard For example, in Virginia, VIA coordinated academic, arts, athlectic, & leadership interscholastic events. #HiddenFigures ⬇️viastory.org
After #BrownvBoard ruling, there was the fight for implementation and countless stories of terrorism carried about by white supremacists in response, such as the murder of 16-yr-old James Earl Reese in Texas in October of 1955. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/john…
Many protests to demand desegregation and quality schools were in North -- including NY (see one of the largest CRM demos ⬇️) and Chicago. Important to teach that oppression and resistance were/are throughout U.S., not just in the South. #BrownvBoard zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/nyc-…
"History is messy. Folks too often romanticize the rich educational legacy that #BrownvBd represents." -- Melinda D. Anderson Read this thread by (and follow!!) @mdawriter
On this anniversary of Brown v. Board, we also recommend following @NAACP_LDF naacpldf.org Slogan is a good reminder that the fight has always been for QUALITY education for ALL. In photo: Thurgood Marshall, Daisy Bates, and several members of the Little Rock Nine.) 
