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Who were the lead attorneys for both sides in Brown v. Board of Education?
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The lead attorney for for Brown was NAACP Chief Counsel and future Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. He was the lawyer from the NAACP. He later became the first African American on the Supreme Court. He argued 32 civil rights cases before the US Supreme Court and won 29.
The lead attorney for the Respondents of the four segregation cases consolidated under Brown, was John W. Davis. Davis was a one-time Democratic Presidential candidate and a leading authority on Constitutional law. He died several months after the decision in Brown.
Attorneys for the respondent states in the consolidated case of Brown v. Board of Education and its companion case, Bolling v. Sharpe:
Brown v. Board of Education (State attorneys):
John W. Davis (South Carolina)
James Lindsey Almond, Jr. (Virginia)
Paul E. Wilson (Kansas)
H. Albert Young (Delaware)
Bolling v. Sharpe:
Milton Korman (District of Columbia)
Case Citation:
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
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∙ 13y ago
Thurgood Marshall served as the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education. He was the director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund at the time. On the opposing side, John W. Davis was one of the lead attorneys representing the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
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