Resilient Elders Walk in The Southern Breeze: Growing up through Brown Decision and entering my Golden Years in the 21st Century

• In Event: Brown vs. Board of Education@70: Centering Blackness in the Brown Decision (1954 to the Present), a Candid Conversation

Abstract

This research focuses on a period of 15 years, 1954-1969 when The Brown Decision was issued and the last state, Mississippi, established minimal compliance with the federal law. The study's participants, The Elders, were the children of The Brown Decision and were school-aged during the years of 1954-and 1969, offering learnings of how their parents and community members developed networks and communication practices as tools to teach lessons of morality, dignity, work ethic, and survival.

Author

• Ayanna F. Brown, Erikson Institute