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70TH ANNIVERSARY BROWN COALITION
The Coalition came about through outreach from the National Park Service to re-establish a collaborative working relationship with The Brown Foundation for Educational Excellence, Equity, and Research.
COMMEMORATING TOGETHER
Community groups unite to honor the on-going legacy of
Brown v. Board of Education
and the US Supreme Court's decision to hear all five 1952 school desegregation cases collectively.
Belton v Gebhart (Delaware)
Bolling v Sharp (Washington, D.C.)
Briggs v Elliott (South Carolina)
Brown v Board of Education (Kansas)
Davis v Prince Edward County School Board (Virginia)
This grouping was significant because it showed school segregation as a national issue, and not just a regional one.
Click on each location to learn more about the case. You can also visit The Brown Foundation here.
GALLERY OF COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS
Special Thank You to Brian Peters Photography
"This is an exciting time for not just Topeka and America, but for the entire world. We can look back seventy years to see how far we have come and then look forward to assess how far we yet need to go. So much hangs on the continued work that the Brown decision set in motion."
- Dr. Beryl New, Coalition Co-Chair and Kansas African American Affairs Commissioner
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
In raw and intimate detail, trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams narrates not only the events of the night that thrust him into the national spotlight, but his grief and anger as a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Atul Gawande and Damon Tweedy, Williams diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us.
"70th Brown Anniversary Coalition Sparks Community Discussion on Gun Violence and Racism"
"The 70th Brown Coalition’s mission is to take a proactive approach and find solutions to the social determinants leading to gun violence in the community. This includes education and health care access and quality, environmental factors, economic stability, and social context."
Our Team.
Glenda Washington
Chair
Cheryl Brown Henderson
Coalition Progenitor-The Brown Foundation
Dr. Beryl New
Co-Chair
Monique Pittman-Lui
Executive Producer
Brown Coalition Organizations and Institutions
