60th Anniversary of Brown Versus Board of Education (May 1954): panel discussion

Details pre-posted at www.dianerehmshow.org/ NPR call-in national Radio Program: This week (May 12 - 16, 2014) marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education(1954), in which the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Diane Rehm and a panel of guests looks back at the events leading up to the landmark decision and resistance to implementation by the southern states. Guests: Isabel Wilkerson Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns /// Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Delegate to the United States Congress representing the District of Columbia; Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit /// Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund /// Stan Brand, partner, Brand Law Group and distinguished fellow in law and government, Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law; former counsel to House of Representatives (1976-83).