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the fdic, martin gruenberg and michael barr appeared before the senate to if found continued sexual -- harassment at the agency. watch at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> joining us now is a professor of law, civil rights■i and socil justice at georgetown university. the author of a book, "white space, black hood." it has been 70ears since the supreme court gave its decision in brown v board of education. haseen the lasting impact? >>ost lasting impact is that brown captured the imagination of a new gener of young people who were

to believe -- i am a free and equal citizen. be able to go to school institution in america on a nonracial basis. institution on a nonracial basis. that inspired people like my parents and that culminated in a social and the civil rights act of the 60's. only after that social revolution that the court be enforce brown. brown gets actively enforced by federal courts in 1968-1988 where you have this golden age of school integration which i benefited from. born and raised in huntsville, alabama. i am a proud, young baby br.we d

public schools we are poor, working class and affluent kids of all races participated along and were able to access opportunities. is what round st. host: what did your parents tell you about how this captured their imagination? guest: my father said, if we had to rely on his parents generationjim crow because it was beyond theiryears imagination to challenge the status quo of separate but equal. they stayed in the black world and cap there heads down.

my parents generation wereore upstarts and they believed in equality before brown was decided and parents and school were willing to risk danger for their principal. host: what led to the supreme court hearing this case? guest: the naacp led by lawyers li thurgood marshall who happily, i clerked for. ad bn fighting segregation incrementally in the courts. primarily in higher education and succeeded to getting to separate was inherently unequal in grad school. fortunately, there were some

parents who were willing to risk th children and their children in a situation where they demanded to have the in applied to public schools. you have five cases that culminated brown. host: what stood out to you in the oral argument of this case? ias recently writing and reflecting on this case and justice marshall in his final oral argument before the court ething to the effect of why you said of all the peopl cs are singled out for this treatment of being excluded and not being worthy? schoolchildren black andthey p'e

not allowed to that was profound brought this idea that is state-sponsored segregation. 17 states including states in the foer confederacy required by law the children stay separated in schools and that sends a message ofinferiority af pe children. the destabilizing of this long-held culture of racial hierarchy. host: when did the court issue an opinion? guest: may 17 19 54. tomorrow is the 70th anniversary. a year later dealt with the

remedies and how it could be implemented. ho why did they wait? guest: plessy versus ferguson said separate but equal is the law of the lanstates do not sto. it got so rul required schoolbooks had to ed . black and white children could ckertogether. you had a regime that separ years in the culture and way of life. to try to dismantle that, even after it was decided it was massively resisted.

in one county in virginia they shut public schools down for five years. chief justice earl warren was aware that this was going to be difficult. after a social revolution, by 1968, millions of americans wang protesters get water hoses tu them are beaten. ■7by 1968, the majority of americans had come around to the idea

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