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The Brown v. Board of Education case didn't start how you think it did

  • Written by Charise Cheney, Associate Professsor of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
Thurgood Marshall outside the Supreme Court in Washington in 1958. Marshall, the head of the NAACP's legal arm who argued part of the case, went on to become the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.AP

As the nation celebrates the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, the case is often recalled as one that...

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