President Obama on Friday marked the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark
Brown v. Board of Education
school- desegregation decision by recommitting to "the long struggle to stamp out bigotry and racism in all their forms."
Obama also scheduled a meeting Friday with families of the plaintiffs, the lead attorneys, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Obama was hosting the group including lawyers Jack Greenberg, who argued the case, and William Coleman, a leading legal strategist.
Obama said the decision, issued May 17, 1954, was "the first major step in dismantling the 'separate-but- equal' doctrine that justified Jim Crow," the racial segregation laws across the South. - AP