NAACP versus Board of Education
The NAACP filed a suit against the board of education on our behalf on September 13, 1949, and following a story about us in the St. Louis Post Dispatch with our address, the hate mail followed. Entrenched bigots upholding the unearned supremacy of white people used all manner of foul language and threats of death to force us to drop our case.
You may read articles from the St. Louis Post Dispatch and read the Supreme Court decision to draw your own conclusions as to how the Board of Education and their lawyers denied blacks their constitutional rights.
When the final decision was handed down from the Supreme Court on November 13, 1950, both Bubba and I were being trained as aircraft and engine mechanics in the Air Force.
Rather than allow us to attend Hadley Technical or install aeromechanics at Washington Technical, the school board decided to eliminate aeromechanics at Hadleys. Thus, still "separate" and now "equal." Very creative bigots huh? White people are able to fake sincerity and lie convincingly.
Alvene, your brother, led by your father and the NAACP, played a major role in the fight for educational opportunities in our public school system and you and all of our children should be 'against forgetting' the struggles of the past which are still with us today.
In 1954 when the landmark court case of Brown vs Board of Education ended segregation in the public schools of America, I was working for Republic Aviation, Farmingdale, Long Island, New York as a senior aircraft and engine mechanic on their F-84 Thunderstreak after my honorable discharge from the Air Force. Cookie was an engine analyzer in the Air Force, serving the 92nd Heavy Bombardment Group (SAC) at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, and Bubba had been killed.
You may read articles from the St. Louis Post Dispatch and read the Supreme Court decision to draw your own conclusions as to how the Board of Education and their lawyers denied blacks their constitutional rights.
When the final decision was handed down from the Supreme Court on November 13, 1950, both Bubba and I were being trained as aircraft and engine mechanics in the Air Force.
Rather than allow us to attend Hadley Technical or install aeromechanics at Washington Technical, the school board decided to eliminate aeromechanics at Hadleys. Thus, still "separate" and now "equal." Very creative bigots huh? White people are able to fake sincerity and lie convincingly.
Alvene, your brother, led by your father and the NAACP, played a major role in the fight for educational opportunities in our public school system and you and all of our children should be 'against forgetting' the struggles of the past which are still with us today.
In 1954 when the landmark court case of Brown vs Board of Education ended segregation in the public schools of America, I was working for Republic Aviation, Farmingdale, Long Island, New York as a senior aircraft and engine mechanic on their F-84 Thunderstreak after my honorable discharge from the Air Force. Cookie was an engine analyzer in the Air Force, serving the 92nd Heavy Bombardment Group (SAC) at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, and Bubba had been killed.
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