|
|
Transcript: Fortieth Anniversary of `Brown vs. Board of Education'
- Article from:
- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- May 16, 1994
CopyrightProvided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
00-00-0000
BOB EDWARDS, Host: This is Morning Edition, I'm Bob Edwards. Forty
years ago the Supreme Court issued one of the most important rulings
in U.S. law. In the unanimous decision, the court ruled that separate-
but-equal educational facilities were unconstitutional. Brown vs.
Board of Education was the beginning of a revolution in American race
relations. The decision was to be carried out, in the words of the
high court, `with all deliberate speed.' But, a cautious President
Eisenhower reminded the nation that change would not happen overnight.
Pres. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: There has got to be the sentiment, the
goodwill, the good sense of a whole ...