Rep. Espaillat Issues Statement on Anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education
May 17, 2018
May 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-New York, issued the following statement to mark the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling:
"On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separate meant unequal, ruling against segregation for the first time since reconstruction. After the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Justice Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund at the time warned that &# . . .
"On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separate meant unequal, ruling against segregation for the first time since reconstruction. After the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Justice Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund at the time warned that &# . . .