The photo accessible via Related Links (below) shows the NAACP lead legal team for the cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).
Pictured from left to right: Louis L. Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood w. Robinson III.
For a more comprehensive list of people who worked on the case, see Related Questions, below.
Separate but Equal
Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African-American US Supreme Court justice, argued Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) before the Court, but he wasn't the only lawyer challenging the idea of "separate but equal." Brown was a consolidation of five separate cases opposing segregation in public schools across the nation. Each had been developed and tried in the lower courts by talented NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyers who also deserve to be remembered for their efforts.Many of these esteemed lawyers (and unnamed others) fought legal battles involving different aspects of the "separate but equal" doctrine in addition to Brown. To learn about some of the other NAACP lawyers who worked on Brown v. Board of Education, see Related Questions, below.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The duration of Separate But Equal is 3.23 hours.
yes! No, because there is no way to ensure that anything separate really is equal.
NAACP
Executive
The NAACP used lawyers to oppose segregation. They used all types of historic details stating in great detail as to why they opposed segregation.They also used doctrinal analysis and political contexts in their argument.
Separate but Equal
Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African-American US Supreme Court justice, argued Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) before the Court, but he wasn't the only lawyer challenging the idea of "separate but equal." Brown was a consolidation of five separate cases opposing segregation in public schools across the nation. Each had been developed and tried in the lower courts by talented NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyers who also deserve to be remembered for their efforts.Many of these esteemed lawyers (and unnamed others) fought legal battles involving different aspects of the "separate but equal" doctrine in addition to Brown. To learn about some of the other NAACP lawyers who worked on Brown v. Board of Education, see Related Questions, below.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The NAACP organized lawsuits to end "separate but equal." The landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954 was funded and organized by the NAACP after the Topeka chapter of the NAACP decided that that particular case would be most likely to reach a favorable conclusion in the US Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall argued the case declaring that "separate but equal " were unequal and overturned the ruling of provisions of the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson decision which allowed for "separate but equal " public facilities.
Thurgood Marshall argued the case declaring that "separate but equal " were unequal and overturned the ruling of provisions of the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson decision which allowed for "separate but equal " public facilities.
in the Brown case, the "separate but equal" principle was challenged.
Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African-American US Supreme Court justice.
The NAACP were against segregation. They believed in desegregation and equal rights for all citizens. To voice their views, the NAACP staged boycotts and protests across the South.