Describes The Road To And After Bolling V. Sharpe, The Brown V. Board Companion Case That Desegregated

Describes the road to and after Bolling v. Sharpe, the Brown v. Board companion case that desegregated DC public schools using a legal argument based on the Fifth - and not the Thirteenth - Amendment. Heavy with short excerpts of interviews with Washingtonians - many never famous - about their experiences and recollections of, and reactions to, the Supreme Court's decision.

Melissa is one of my committee members, who I’m TAing for this semester, and she just got her own show on MSNBC! I couldn’t be more happy for her :D

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen.

Thomas Sankara

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Stokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Floyd McKissick, speaking, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality.

In a rare public appearance together, the leaders of Civil Rights groups conduct a news conference in Memphis, Tenn., in this June 7, 1966 file photo, in the wake of the shotgun attack on James Meredith near Hernando, Mississippi.

A black woman tearfully condemns rioters, whom she accuses of burning down her Washington home.