Sixty-eight years ago, the Supreme Court decided the historic Brown v. Board of Education case, ending segregation in education. The Thurgood Marshall Center Trust marked the historic landmark with an event where guest speaker Rawle Andrews Jr., the executive director for the American Psychiatric Association, talked about decisions leading up to Brown v. Board of Education.
The law changed… because by 1968, we had the Kerner Commission report… separate and unequal. If it takes a court order… to tell you that you have rights, how many rights do you have anyway?
“Dred Scott–1857. That’s not critical race theory, that’s true… it’s in the book. Plessy v. Ferguson–1896. It’s not critical race theory, it’s in the book. Brown v. Board of Education–’54. Sixty-eighth anniversary, but guess what happened? The law changed… because by 1968, we had the Kerner Commission report… separate and unequal. If it takes a court order… to tell you that you have rights, how many rights do you have anyway?”
Click ▶️ to listen to AURN Washington Correspondent Ebony McMorris’s report:
