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In 1954 the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that would make public school segregation unconstitutional. We'll look at Brown versus Board of Education fifty years later to see if it's still relevant and what impact it still has on the public school system. Trish Anderton hosts. Her guest is James Patterson, Author of ?Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its troubled Legacy? and a Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University in Rhode Island. Also, Derrick Bell, Author of ?Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Ed and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform?. Bell is a Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School and as an NAACP Legal Defense Fund Lawyer, he handled hundreds of school desegregation cases during the 60s. He also was the first black professor at Harvard to receive tenure.