A Due Process Special: “The Case That Changed America?” (#909 )

In this special edition, Due Process looks at the grim history of Jim Crow segregation, the historic importance of Brown v. Board of Education and the failure of the United States in general, and New Jersey in particular, to live up to the letter of the law and the intent of the decision. In a series of five field pieces, we hear recollections and analysis of Brown from a wide range of players and observers, including two of the NAACP lawyers who tried the case, six of the federal judges sitting in Newark, the NJ Attorney General, the last three heads of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Rosa Park’s lawyer and even South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. And with us in the studio: David Sciarra, director of the Education Law Center, and Yale Law Prof. Ronald Sullivan.