There are 3 article(s) tagged Brown vs. Board of Education:

• March 2024

  • Hooks Institute event to look at impact of Brown v. Topeka Board

    Seventy years after the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case, the Brown v. Board of Education decision remains one of the most important in U.S. history.

    By Jane Roberts March 28, 2024

• October 2022

  • Opinion: Memories of Memphis school integration and ‘the bravest people I ever met’

    Looking back at some of the first black classmates after the integration of Memphis schools, the writer shares memories of bravery in the face of racial and anti-Semitic abuse.

    By H. Scott Prosterman October 12, 2022

• June 2020

  • Willis: It’s time for business and civic leaders to step up

    Those who are hardest hit do not have the power or resources to change the economic, educational, health care and criminal justice systems. Even our democracy, which should have the potential to be an equalizer, is fundamentally broken and in many cases, morally bankrupt.

    By Archie Willis June 04, 2020