A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools by Devlin Rachel

Author:Devlin, Rachel [Devlin, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

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“Hearts and Minds”

The Road to Brown v. Board of Education

I N AUGUST 1950, LUCINDA TODD wrote a letter to Walter White, president of the NAACP, asking if he would be willing to help out with a planned school desegregation case. When White wrote back saying that the national office was willing to take on the lawsuit, Todd located and recruited other plaintiffs—thirteen mothers and one father, mostly parents and children from her own block, the ten-hundred block of Jewell Avenue. These would be the plaintiffs listed on Brown v. Board of Education , Topeka , the lead case in a group of five such cases appealed to the Supreme Court in 1952. The cases would include Briggs v. Elliott (South Carolina), Bulah v. Gebhart and Belton v. Gebhart (Delaware), Davis v. County School Board (Virginia), and Bolling v. Sharpe (Washington, DC). When Todd was interviewed twenty years later, what she recalled most was a motivating anger. There were problems with her daughter Nancy’s teachers, and she wanted the freedom to choose something better:

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