Brown v. Board Of Education Script

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Brown v. Board of Education Script Narrator--- Labria Wallace Thurgood Marshall—Benshaw Flowers John Davis—Casteel Johnson NARRATOR: “This script was edited by the American Bar Association Division for Public Education from the full transcript of the 1952 and 1953 arguments in Brown v. Board of Education as published in Argument: The Complete Oral Argument before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1952-55, ed. Leon Friedman (New York: Chelsea House, 1969).” NARRATOR: On May 17, the United States will observe the 56th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. With that decision came an end to the doctrine of “separate but equal” in public education, and the beginning of the effort to ensure that educational opportunities were available on equal terms to all United States citizens. Benshaw Flowers will be playing the part of Thurgood Marshall, the legendary head of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund and, later in his career, the first African American to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Casteel Johnson will be playing the part of John Davis, whose career highlights included serving in the Wilson administration, first as solicitor general and then as ambassador to the Court of St. James, running as the 1924 Democratic candidate for President, and. for 34 years, heading the New York law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Tonight’s program is a short excerpt from the many hours of argument that the Supreme Court heard before reaching its decision in Brown v. Board. The arguments for the consolidated cases began on Tuesday, December 9, 1952. Marshall and Davis began their arguments in Briggs v. Elliott late that day and concluded on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 10. Tonight we will hear the closing arguments in the case that helped to start the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

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