{"id":581,"date":"2022-12-01T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/?page_id=581"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:10:49","slug":"brown-v-board-of-education-1954","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/syllabus\/brown-v-board-of-education-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown v. Board of Education (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contextualizing and internationalizing\u00a0Brown\u00a0<\/em>does not simply provide new details to a preexisting narrative.\u00a0 Viewing\u00a0Brown\u00a0<\/em>as a Cold War case helps us rethink the story itself. \u2014Mary Dudziak, \u201cBrown as a Cold War Case,\u201d p. 35<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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  • NAACP (From WEB DuBois to Thurgood Marshall and Legal Fund)<\/li>\n
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    Brown v. Board of Education (1954)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Showing that an NAACP case aided American international prestige served two important interests. First, it gave civil rights activists important leverage. The argument that social change aided U.S. foreign relations could be used to further the NAACP\u2019s social change agenda. Second, showing that NAACP efforts enhanced American international prestige helped the NAACP argue that its work promoted, rather than undermined, the nation\u2019s Cold War interests. During the Cold War, when civil rights activists were red-baited as subversives, that could help the organization weather criticism. \u2013Dudziak, 36<\/p><\/blockquote>\n