Podcast
Brown v. Board of Education: Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Ep. 201607
TAH.org’s latest episode in our Landmark Supreme Court Cases webinar series took place on Saturday, 19 November, and was hosted by Dr. Chris Burkett, with Drs. Emily Hess and Jason Stevens as panelists.聽Brown v. Board of Education (1954)聽was discussed as both the repudiation of聽Plessy v. Ferguson as well as what many see as the formal start to the post-WW2 Civil Rights era. The two cases’ legal reasoning, constitutional foundations, and outcomes were discussed as a an integrated whole, making for an interesting and informative discussion of African-American civil rights, as playing out over generations. For those interested in additional readings on the subjects, the panelists recommended the following books.
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- : Race in the American Century, Robert J. Norrell
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- , Waldo E. Martin
