The Brown v. Topeka Case

At the ASA conference, I heard over and over again about the Brown v. Topeka Case. I knew nothing about it. I met a Black sociologist who wrote a book on it, and told him I would read it. It is not available at the UL library, so I had to find refuge on Wikipedia until I get to Stanford.

See the page ici.

So much can be said about racial and GENDER stereotypes at that time just form the following quote. Crazy stuff!

``The Kansas case, "Oliver Brown et al v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas," was named after Oliver Brown as a legal strategy to have a man at the head of the roster. Also, it was felt by lawyers with the National Chapter of the NAACP, that having Mr. Brown at the head of the roster would be better received by the U.S. Supreme Court Justices because Mr. Brown had an intact, complete family, as opposed to someone who was a single parent head of household. The twelve plaintiffs were: Oliver Brown, Darlene Brown, Lena Carper, Sadie Emmanuel, Marguerite Emerson, Shirley Fleming, Zelma Henderson, Shirley Hodison, Maude Lawton, Alma Lewis, Iona Richardson, and Lucinda Todd.''

On the Massive Resistance movement, against desegregation, see here.