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Originally Posted by lawump
No but I graduated in the top 2%.
Brown vs. Board of Education was 5 consolidated cases...Briggs vs. Elliot was the first and the one that started it all. It was the oldest case.
The Supreme decided to list Brown vs. Board of Education first...but Briggs vs. Elliot was FIRST. That is where the NCAAP drew their first line in the sand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggs_v._Elliott
And, oh yeah, my thesis was on Brown vs. Board of Education and how it has failed. |
And if you don't believe that is what the NAACP considers their first case...then your wrong. I went to the NAACP rally at the South Carolina state house on MLK day a few weeks ago...and the NAACP President recognized South Carolina as being where desegration became the law of the land.