The Lasting Legacy of Brown v. Board | PBS NewsHour

The 70th anniversary since the Supreme Court’s landmark civil rights ruling of Brown v. Board of Education integrated public education took place May 17, 2024. NewsHour‘s Geoff Bennett discussed more with Annette Gordon Reed of Harvard Law School and the first Black student to enroll in an all-White school in her Texas hometown in 1963, and Kevin Young, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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