Resource: Resisting Retreat: the Struggle for Equity in Educational Opportunity in the Post-Brown Era

By: Lia B. Epperson

October 1, 2004

The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, founder of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (“LDF”), and head of the legal team that litigated Brown v. Board of Education, knew well the challenges desegregation posed in a nation founded on a system of racial subjugation and white supremacy.

https://lawreview.law.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/lawreview/article/viewFile/51/51

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Case Studies

Institution: NAACP Legal Defense Fund