I remained in segregated schools through high school as did my oldest brother. In the years that followed, all of my family personally experienced the effect of that decision. National Archives and Records Administration. We were excited!! And we were totally innocent with regard to the enormity of what would be demanded of us, our communities, and our families as we moved into the post- Brown era. Late that morning (and during recess) my father, the school principal, gathered all of us together on the school’s playground to tell us of the decision. May 17, 1954, was a beautiful low-country spring day. BCTS was racially separate but (except for accomplished and dedicated teachers) emphatically not equal. In 1954, I was a nine-year-old African American fourth-grader in the Berkley Training County School (BCTS) in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. However, as I think of major life events in the shadow of my impending retirement, Brown looms large. “Sixty-sixth” anniversaries are not observed! Milestone dates are ordinarily divisible by five or ten. Separate education facilities are inherently unequal.” In that 1954 case, the Supreme Court of the United States held that “n the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Brown was a watershed case in American history. May 17, 2020, will mark the 66 th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (Vanderbilt, 2009), about the decision’s effects on the nation’s public school students in the years that followed. Bonnie, have published a collection of forty essays, Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Robinson and School of Law colleague, Richard J. Board of Education, throughout her lifetime. She shares her story of the impact of the 1954 landmark case, Brown v.

Mildred Wigfall Robinson has been a faculty member of the University of Virginia‘s School of Law since 1985 and is retiring in May.

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