Tag: Jim Crow

  • Nation & World

    Rescuing MLK and his Children’s Crusade

    A book by Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin traces Martin Luther King’s desperation and the savvy legal tactics of Constance Baker Motley.

    24 minutes
    A 1963 photo of police leading a group of Black children to jail.
  • Nation & World

    The Civil Rights lawyer who paved the path

    On the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Gazette sat down with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the faculty director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, to talk about Houston, architect of the legal campaign that led to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court ruling that ended legal segregation in public schools.

    8 minutes
    Tomiko Brown-Nagin.