50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education [Poster]

New York: NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Print/Graphic. Very good. Poster is printed on one side only. The format is approximately 18 inches by 24 inches. It is folded into quarters. The center (and a bit more) is a black and white photograph of school children. The text reads: 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education Quality Education for All is Not Yet a Reality. If you this the struggle is over, think again. NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. Still Here. Still Fighting for Your Rights. www.naccpldf.org. Logo commemorating the 50th anniversary at the bottom right. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. The Court's unanimous decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." De jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is the country's first and foremost civil and human rights law firm. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, LDF was launched at a time when the nation's aspirations for equality and due process of law were stifled by widespread state-sponsored racial inequality. LDF's mission has always been transformative: to achieve racial justice, equality, and an inclusive society. LDF's victories established the foundations for the civil rights that all Americans enjoy today. In its first two decades, LDF undertook a coordinated legal assault against officially enforced public school segregation. This campaign culminated in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954. The Court's unanimous decision overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine of legally sanctioned discrimination, widely known as Jim Crow.