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70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education – A Daughter’s Reflection
May 30 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Join Cheryl Brown Henderson for an evening of reflection and memories as she takes patrons back to this significant time in American history and discusses how it still impacts us today.
Cheryl Brown Henderson is the daughter of the late Rev. Oliver L. Brown. Rev. Brown, along with a team of attorneys for the NAACP and 12 other parents in Topeka, Kansas, filed suit on behalf of their children against the local Board of Education for segregating public schools.
Their case joined cases from Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and on May 17, 1954, it became known as the landmark decision Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. This case was legally named for Oliver Brown, i.e., Oliver L. Brown et. al. vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS. et. al. Rev. Brown died in 1961, before knowing the impact this case would have on the nation.
This event is co-sponsored by Friends of the Dayton Metro Library and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
