Monday marked the 56th anniversary of the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education. In the unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
I am leaving for Greensboro, N.C., in a few hours to participate in an education symposium charrette, “The Crisis for Black Public Schoolchildren,” organized by DeWayne Wickham, the director of the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at North Carolina A&T University.
I am pressed for time so I will share information about the charrette in a future post.
For now, I want to share a photo that I took during a recent visit to the Mother Bethel AME Church Museum.
It’s a photo of AME bishops in front of the Supreme Court in 1954 praying for a favorable decision.
Their prayers were answered. But 56 years later, black children attend public schools that are largely separate and unequal.
