President to host Brown v. Board families, lawyers

[struggle4progress]

Proclamation hails ruling that shifted nation's 'moral compass'
By The Associated Press

... Obama also scheduled a meeting Friday with families of the plaintiffs as well as the lead attorneys and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Obama will host the group, including lawyers Jack Greenberg and William Coleman, in the White House East Room. Greenberg argued the case; Coleman was a leading legal strategist.

Topekan Cheryl Brown Henderson, daughter of plaintiff Oliver Brown, said two families with connections to the Topeka case — the Brown and Lawton families — also would attend.

In a statement, Obama said the decision, issued on May 17, 1954, was “the first major step in dismantling the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine that justified Jim Crow,” the racial segregation laws that were in place at the state and local level across the South.

“As we commemorate this historic anniversary, we recommit ourselves to the long struggle to stamp out bigotry and racism in all their forms,” Obama said. “We reaffirm our belief that all children deserve an education worthy of their promise. And we remember that change did not come overnight, that it took many years and a nationwide movement to fully realize the dream of civil rights for all of God’s children” ...

http://cjonline.com/news/2014-05-16/president-host-brown-v-board-families-lawyers

[sheshe2]

1. Thank you for posting this s4p.

I read about it the other night.

Obama pledged to never forget the men, women and children who took “extraordinary risks in order to make our country more fair and more free.”

[IrishAyes]

2. I remember the peaceful march

when black men walked quietly down the streets of some place like Birmingham, carrying signs that read, "I Am A Man". But most of all I remember the March on Selma; nonresistant to what Bull Connors' men did is widely thought to have marked the turning point of the Civil Rights movement. Most of America had tv then, and we were stunned and horrified about the police riot that took place that day.I saw that day change a lot of people, which of course the marchers intended. Not just to secure their own rights, but to shine a light for their ignorant opponents everywhere.

[Major Hogwash]

3. " . . we recommit ourselves to the long struggle to stamp out bigotry and racism in all their forms"

Damn right we do.

Great post.