Columbia University, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education; Distinguished Participants Include Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Lawyers in Brown.
AScribe Law News Service, February, 2004
Byline: Columbia Law School
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Columbia University and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) will host a year-long celebration in honor of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education -- the landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state-imposed racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection of the laws. Jack Greenberg (CC '45, Law '48), a Columbia Law School professor, other Law School graduates and faculty were among the attorneys who represented the African-American plaintiffs.
"Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, declared the 'separate but equal' doctrine to be...
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