Lifting the Veil: Brown, Race Men, and Mamie P. Clark, Ph.D.

• In Event: Teaching, Learning, Empowering: Profiles of Educators

Abstract

Civil rights attorneys Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall laid groundwork for Black children, typical and atypical learners’ access and equality under U.S. law. Struggles for equality could not be ignored once Brown v. Board overturned Plessy. Mamie Phipps Clark’s scholarship was critical to this historic decision, lifting the veil.

Authors

• Lois McFadyen Christensen, The University of Alabama - Birmingham

• Jennifer Kilgo, The University of Alabama - Birmingham