{"id":1635,"date":"2013-05-17T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2013-05-17T16:03:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:03:59","slug":"brown-v-board-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/05\/17\/brown-v-board-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown v Board of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/05\/di1954-05-18_p01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3299\" alt=\"Segregation Held Unconsituional\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/05\/di1954-05-18_p01-1024x513.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court&#8217;s unanimous ruling in the Brown v Board of Education, making separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The Daily Iowan story is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu\/DI\/1954\/di1954-05-18.pdf\" >May 18, 1954 issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling did not affect Iowa because segregation of schools had been illegal since 1868.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur first public schools were for &#8220;white&#8221; students only. But in 1868, eighty-six years before Brown versus State Board of Education, Topeka\u2014which struck down separate schools for blacks and whites in 1954\u2014Alexander Clark Sr. successfully sued the City of Muscatine so his daughter, Susan, could attend the white elementary school. This was the same year that Iowa became the first northern state to guarantee black men\u2019s right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/dp\/id\/2051\">Letters to a young Iowan [excerpt]<\/a>, Hal S. Chase<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/05\/sui-queen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3309 alignleft\" alt=\"&quot;S.U.I. queen vote accents tolerance,&quot; December 14, 1955\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/05\/sui-queen.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Just one year after the landmark Supreme Court ruling, Iowa students elected an African American woman, Dora Lee Martin, as homecoming queen. This election was touted in state papers as demonstrating tolerance at the University, such as this <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/aawiowa\/id\/1316\" >excerpt<\/a> from the Sioux City Tribune-Journal.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Dora Lee Martin in a previous blog post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/2008\/02\/05\/queen-of-the-campus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Queen of the campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court&rsquo;s unanimous ruling in the Brown v Board of Education, making separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The Daily Iowan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}