Brown Panel Seeks to Stir Passion for History, Civil Rights
A federal commission formed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education hopes to use the occasion to stir passion about history and civil rights among a generation of Americans too young to remember officially segregated schools.
"Young people really do not know what the country was like before Brown ," Roger Wilkins, a professor of history and American culture at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and a commission member, said during the panel's inaugural meeting here last week. "This is a moment we really must seize and squeeze the greatest educational advantage out of."
The 22-member commission was created by Congress to coordinate commemorative activities around the golden anniversary of the May 17, 1954, Supreme Court ruling striking down so-called...
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