May 17 marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of Education.
The Brown decision addressed consolidated issues from four different cases — in Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware and Virginia — involving racial segregation.
The Brown decision established unequivocally that African Americans had equal rights in America.
In the 2013 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder, the Court, by a 5-4 vote (with five right-wing justices in the majority), gutted the Voting Rights Act.
The scandalous decision by Chief Justice John Roberts overturned the reauthorization of the Act by Congress, arguing that the country “has changed” and that racial discrimination in voting was no longer a problem in the South.
