Gibbs v. Broome: Rockville's Place on the Road to Brown v. Board of Education
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Authors
Smith, Alonzo N.
Duffin, Sharyn R.
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2020-02
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Vol. 62;No. 2
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en_US
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Article covers an early NAACP lawsuit intended to break down Jim Crow education. The legal campaign to equalize pay for all teachers was led by attorney Thurgood Marshall and William B. Gibbs, Jr., a courageous local teacher and civil rights advocate. The authors chronicled the long struggle by the Montgomery County’s black community for social justice.
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Montgomery County Historical Society