Tomorrow marks 70 years since the landmark civil rights ruling of Brown versus Board of Education,

when the US Supreme Court declared that in the field of public education,

the doctrine of separate but equal has no place.

President Biden met today with several of the original plaintiffs who brought the case to

court and their families.

Afterward, Cheryl Brown Henderson, one of the daughters of the lead plaintiff, Oliver Brown, said they were there to celebrate how the long fight had changed education.

But she was quick to say, much work remains to be done.

We're still fighting the battle over whose children do we invest in.

Anytime we can talk about failing underfunded public schools, there is a problem.

There should be no such thing.

Public institutions where most of us got our education

should be world-class educational institution.

The families today also recalled how the path to integration was met with intense resistance,

fear and violence.

That was echoed at a different ceremony in Washington this past week by another pioneer Gail Etienne who was one of the so-called New Orleans four who were the first children to desegregate two all white schools in New Orleans back in 1960.

They treated us like animals.

We didn't know it at the time.

But that is exactly what they were doing.

They were teachers definitely there that were encouraging them to do that to us.

Call us all kind of names spin on us.

Anything that you could think of.

That young children shouldn't go through in school we went through.

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