Monday, December 31, 2018

FEMINISTS RESTING IN POWER: AMY JACQUES GARVEY AT 123

Feeling Rebloggy
A repost


Amy was a lot more than just Marcus Garvey's wife, before and after he was imprisoned.




“The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey” is the first book-length biography of this important but unsung figure. 
Born in Jamaica in 1895 to an educated “brown” family, Amy Jacques suffered from bouts of malaria and, in order to live in a malaria-free area, moved in 1917 to Harlem. There she became involved in the UNIA, serving first as a traveling secretary and later as private secretary to its leader, to whom she was married in 1922. 
The following year, the government brought charges against Marcus Garvey — claiming fraudulent sale of shares in the UNIA’s black steamship line; over the next years he was imprisoned and eventually deported. (A number of factors — including the hostility of J. Edgar Hoover, Marcus Garvey’s lack of business acumen, and the antipathy of other black leaders — are said to have contributed to Garvey’s downfall.)
Thrust by these troubles, in her husband’s absence, into a prominent position in the UNIA, Amy campaigned for his release, kept his words and philosophy before the public, and developed a female Pan Africanist philosophy on the women’s pages of The Negro World.
“She blossomed,” says Taylor, “by honing her journalistic skills, writing commentary on the international situation, and refining her discourse on Jim Crow.” But it was after her husband’s death in 1940, she says, that Amy Jacques Garvey took flight as an independent thinker. While the UNIA lauded the promise of black capitalism, for example, Amy took note of its limitations. And she became less concerned with getting people to join the UNIA, says Taylor, than with getting Pan African ideas into existing organizations.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2003/02/26_garvey.shtml
* * * * *
I've also read that Marcus did not hand off power over the UNIA to Amy while he was in prison. That may be one reason the organization did not survive and transform. 


However, after reading Elaine Brown's book (A TASTE OF POWER) on how violent some black men got within the Black Panthers when they thought their [toxic] masculinity was being challenged, this decision/action of Marcus' may have protected her

* * * * *

From AAIHS, Transnational Black Feminism
...On the women’s page of the Negro World, black women activists articulated the position Sojourner Truth had emphasized so many years earlier: 
  • The struggle for women’s rights cannot be divorced from the struggle for civil and human rights.
Following the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in August 1920, the Jamaican black nationalist Amy Jacques Garvey praised the amendment for expanding opportunities for women in the public sphere. She was not oblivious to its limitations especially as it pertained to black women in the United States. But, [Harvey] saw it as a source of inspiration and a step towards greater liberation for all women.



In [Harvey's] writings during this period, she often drew comparisons to white feminist movements in her efforts to encourage black women to push harder in the fight for their liberation and the liberation of other people of color. 
“White women are rallying all their forces,” she argued, “and [they are] uniting regardless of national boundaries to save their race from destruction and preserve its ideals for posterity.” “We see them in the law courts pleading as advocates; they preside as judges and administer laws; while in less numbers, yet they are to be seen in parliaments, congresses and council chambers legislating for their people.”
“Be not discouraged black women of the world,” she added, “but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown [to] you. A race must be saved, a country must be redeemed...” 

Read More:  http://www.aaihs.org/on-transnational-black-feminism/ 



Sunday, December 30, 2018

Next Year, Let Go Of The People Who Aren’t Ready To Love You

feeling rebloggy


     ...The truth is that you are not for everyone, and everyone is not for you. 
     That’s what makes it so special when you do find the few people with whom you have a genuine friendship, love or relationship: you’ll know how precious it is because you’ve experienced what it isn’t.
     But the longer you spend trying to force someone to love you when they aren’t capable, the longer you’re robbing yourself of that very connection. It is waiting for you. 
     There are billions of people on this planet, and so many of them are going to meet you at your level, vibe where you are, connect with where you’re going.
     … But the longer you stay small, tucked into the familiarity of the people who use you as a cushion, a back burner option, a therapist and a ploy for their emotional labor, the longer you keep yourself out of the community you crave.
     [But...maybe] if you stop showing up, you’ll be less liked.

  • Maybe you’ll be forgotten about altogether.
  • Maybe if you stop trying, the relationship will cease.
  • Maybe if you stop texting, your phone will stay dark for days and weeks.
  • Maybe if you stop loving someone, the love between you will dissolve.
     That doesn’t mean you ruined a relationship. It means that the only thing sustaining a relationship was the energy you and you alone were putting into it.
     [And] that’s not love. That’s attachment.
 
     The most precious, important thing that you have in your life is your energy. It is not your time that is limited, it is your energy. What you give it to each day is what you will create more and more of in your life. What you give your time to is what will define your existence... 
~Thought Catalog 

Read More: https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2018/12/next-year-let-go-of-the-people-who-arent-ready-to-love-you/?

Saturday, December 29, 2018

SEEKING RELATIONSHIP: The Difference Between Pick-Me-s And Women With Self-Respect

Dianne Foster said,
Wanting to be "picked" isn't the issue. 
[Almost] all of us have a need to want to be with someone who is compatible and respects and cherishes us. 
That's not an issue.

It's when you kiss the ass of every dude that makes a post about what a "real woman" does or wh
at a "respectable woman" does or you lower yourself to agree with every sexist and misogynistic post out there.

And you do it in hopes that one of those sad little ashy Negros will hop in your [social media] inbox and picks you.

And when they do pick you, you'll be miserable trying to live up to the standards of a man who isn't even worthy enough to wash your panties.
And the choir sang, "Amen. Aaaaah ha-ha ha-ha men. Amen."

Then DebLynn added,
And these miserable childish girls, at age 25 or 45, are incapable of raising men. They can only raise entitled little bully boys, a fraction of whom will become domestic abusers when they don't get their way. In the meantime, most of their daughters also become Pick-Me-s, a fraction of them become domestic abuse victims. 

White people are solely responsible for white supremacy despite coons, same as men are responsible for male supremacy (patriarchy) despite enabling pick-me-s. But the black community has tons more than its share of these enablers...because pick-me-s are weak-minded.

They believe it when black men say they suffer more from white supremacy than black women do and when they imply the impacts of sexism (from them) is negligible. And when black pick-me-s believe this, they also decide to believe that black men deserve extra breaks -- breaks like not demanding the basics of respect and loyalty for herself or her children.

Pick-me-s are not the source of the disease called "male supremacy" or "patriarchy." But they are very efficient carriers. 



Friday, December 28, 2018

Black Women Journalists Who Took Out The Trash On Cable News In 2018


FROM NEWSONE.COM
see each video at the link below
1.

Joy-Ann Reid Destroys Pastor Mark Burns

2. 

Angela Rye Lays Down The Law In Cornrows

3.

Symone Sanders Is Not Here For Border Wall Foolishness

4. 

April Ryan Owns Paris Dennard

5.

Abby Phillip Fact-Checking Trump

6.

Angela Rye Checks A Commentator Insulting April Ryan

7.

White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor Asking Trump About His Racism

8.

Nina Turner Annihilates Panelist On Racism In America

Wounded Knee Massacre by Oscar Howe

...Never Forget,
128 years ago today...

Renowned native artist Oscar Howe's painting, "Wounded Knee Massacre", of 1960, a rarely seen masterpiece. The disquieti
ng master work was spurned at its reception, and has seldom been seen since.


Source: Facebook


Thursday, December 27, 2018

White Mainstream Press Surprised That Jemele Hill Has No Regrets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/12/26/jemele-hill-stands-by-calling-president-trump-white-supremacist-i-thought-i-was-saying-water-is-wet/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.de2673c95310

She was saying "water is wet"  At least that's how black and brown folks heard it, maybe one-third of white folks too.

Trump has been clearly identified as a racist since at least the 1970s and 1980s when he was sued trying to stop the rental of his apartments to African Americans in New York.  And since the 1990s when he, among other things, ranted and raved about wanting the Central Park Five dead -- for a crime it turns out they didn't commit-- he was clearly identified as a white supremacist.

And the start of his last presidential campaign should have sealed his identity as a white supremacist for anybody who was even halfway paying attention.

But when the racial demographic with 98% of the power has grandma, grandpa, mommy, daddy, uncle, and auntie saying a percentage of the same things daily and at the Thanksgiving dinner table, obvious racism is willfully ignored.

There was no excuse for anybody to not know Trump as a white supremacist before Charlottesville, much less afterward...And that goes double for Bernie Sanders and his bros, who did their level damn best to say it was white working class angst that made the majority of white folks vote for Donald Trump until study after study came out saying it was racism that was the deciding factor in Trump's election.


And I'm not likely to forget ESPN's response to Jemele Hill either, not until everybody involved has been fired.

Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2018

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racism-history


BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Serena Wins For Pregnant Women And Is Voted AP Female Athlete Of The Year For 5th Time

feeling rebloggy 
   The women’s award has been won more only by Babe Didrikson Zaharias, whose six wins included one for track and five for golf.
     Williams’ previous times winning the AP honor, in 2002, 2009, 2013 and 2015, were because of her dominance.
     This one was about her perseverance.
     Williams developed blood clots after giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. on Sept. 1, 2017, and four surgeries would follow. She returned to the WTA Tour in March and played in just a pair of events before the French Open, where she competed in a skin-tight, full-length black catsuit .
     She said the outfit — worn partly for health reasons because of the clots — made her feel like a superhero, but her game was rarely in superstar shape. She had to withdraw in Paris because of a right pectoral injury and didn’t play again until Wimbledon, where she lost to Angelique Kerber in the final.
     Williams came up short again in New York, where her loss to Naomi Osaka in the final will be remembered best for her outburst toward chair umpire Carlos Ramos, who had penalized Williams for receiving coaching and later penalized her an entire game for calling him a “thief” while arguing.
     That loss leaves her one major title shy of Margaret Court’s record as she starts play next year in a WTA Tour that will look different in part because of
new rules coming about after issues involving Williams. Players returning to the tour may use a “special ranking” for up to three years from the birth of a child, and the exemption can be used for seedings at big events. Also, the tour says players can wear leggings or compression shorts at its tournaments without a skirt over them...
~AP NEWS 
Read More: https://www.apnews.com/c93b33278c8c464983db9b7a9a6c998d?


Tuesday, December 25, 2018

HAIR PSA: MOISTURIZING BLACK GIRL MAGIC FOR NATURALS

My hair loves moisture and it loves it even faster from a steamer.

A deep conditioning treatment can be done without it, but moist heat saves time. Furthermore, if my hair gets over-dry mid week because I feel asleep without doing my bedtime routine, the steam will bring the hair back to life.


So I decided I needed a hair steamer...instead of repeatedly burning myself with a clothes steamer.

The reasonably priced hair steamers I'd seen on line looked flimsy. The ones that didn't look flimsy were too expensive.  And I was getting headache just trying to imagine getting the table-top. hooded steamers at just the right height to sit under it anyway. 


So I decided to try to the famous, portable, light green hair steamer with the prongs. 
But even if you put distilled water in it, like they say, the super cheap tubing and parts inside it will get clogged anyway.  This green, portable hair steamer in question starts producing less and less steam -- by the time you've used it 4 times. But the first few times you use it? You will notice the prongs don't keep the steam far enough away from your head to stop you getting burned.
Once I deemed this popular steamer unreliable, I decided to check out facial steamers, which for most part, shouldn't get too hot.  And this is what I came up with...



I got myself a cheap but highly rated facial steamer and a rain bonnet from a local beauty supply. |

Steam rises into the rain bonnet and is trapped there long enough to moisturize your strands. All you really have to do is make sure the rain bonnet (with visor to catch the steam) is un-tied and lifted up off your skull (making room for steam)

All you have to do is keep in mind that steam rises to get your entire head. 
Sometimes the top of your head is aimed at the ceiling of the room you are in; sometimes the side of your head; and sometimes you bow your head down so the back of your head is aimed at the ceiling. 
My steamer lasts about 20 minutes. And that's plenty of time to get my entire head.  

Try it. It's way better than standing over the stove and a pot of boiling water. And the K-skin facial steamer even has a little attached lid on it for storing the rain bonnet.

Try it

You'll like it

Jordan Peele's New Movie: US

feeling rebloggy

"After sending shockwaves across contemporary culture and setting a new standard for provocative, socially-conscious horror films with his directorial debut, Get Out, Academy Award®-winning visionary Jordan Peele returns with another original nightmare that he has written, directed and produced..."

read more at youtube link below

Us In Theaters March 15, 2019 https://www.UsMovie.com


Sunday, December 23, 2018

WHITES LYNCHED BLACKS FOR PROFIT


To give the 2018 Kamala Harris victory (her federal anti-lynching law) some context, you need to read about THE PEOPLE'S GROCERY STORE LYNCHING OF 1892
 feeling rebloggy
    “To Punish the Lynchers: Memphis Negroes Thirsting for Vengeance,” read the March 11, 1892 headline in The New York Times. Two days earlier, People’s Grocery owner Thomas Moss had been lynched alongside two of his workers, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart, by a white mob that accused Moss of plotting a war against whites. The local paper, the Memphis Appeal Avalanche, described the lynchings as a skillful execution, with the corpses of Moss, McDowell, and Stewart left to rot in the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad yard a mile outside of Memphis, Tennessee.
     Moss, a dark-skinned, chin-bearded, 150-pound man, lay shoeless with his face to the earth. Stewart, the grocery clerk, lay with a shotgun hole in the right side of his neck. To the south of them lay McDowell, a light-skinned, curly-haired, 200-pound man, butchered to the point of dismemberment. “There were four holes in his face and neck, any one of them large enough to allow the insertion of a person’s fist,” the Appeal Avalanche reported.
     The lynchings came 27 years after the defeat of the Confederacy. They marked the breaking point that led to investigations by journalist Ida B. Wells, whose stories in the Memphis Free Speech exposed the real reasons behind the lynchings [ = money, profit]

Read a little morehttps://daily.jstor.org/peoples-grocery-lynching/
          Read a lot more: https://www.amazon.com/Ida-Sword-Campaign-Against-Lynching/dp/0060797363
 

A HYBRID ECLIPSE IN KENYA

Feeling Rebloggy

REPOST



Hybrid Solar Eclipse over Kenya 
Image Credit & Copyright: Eugen Kamenew (Kamenew Photography)

Explanation: Chasing solar eclipses can cause you to go to the most interesting places and meet the most interesting people. Almost. For example, chasing this eclipse brought this astrophotographer to Kenya in 2013. His contact, a member of the Maasai people, was to pick him up at the airport, show him part of southern Kenya, and even agreed to pose in traditional warrior garb on a hill as the hopefully spectacular eclipse set far in background.
Unfortunately, this contact person died unexpectedly a week before the astrophotographer's arrival, and so he never got to participate in the shoot, nor know that the resulting image went on to win an international award for astrophotography.
Pictured in 2013 from Kenya, the Moon covers much of the Sun during a hybrid eclipse, a rare type of solar eclipse that appears as total from some Earth locations, but annular in others. During the annular part of the eclipse, the Moon was too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun. Next month a total solar eclipse will cross the USA.
~NASA

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170724.html

BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM

SARAH BREEDLOVE WALKER A.K.A. MADAM C J WALKER AS PROTOFEMINIST

Life was hard on Sarah Breedlove from an early age. Her parents died when she was a child. She wound up marrying young. And her husband died by the time she was 20.
When Sarah Breedlove took her children and moved to St. Louis Missouri, the middle class women in the church she attended helped her to see herself as more than a washer woman. She learned philanthropy and entrepreneurship, both, from these church women. And she started her first charity drive at this black church
When a scalp condition caused her to lose her hair she became ashamed of her appearance.
She started her hair company by finding a solution for her own scalp condition. Later, when asked how she started her hair care business she would say that she prayed for a solution and a big African man appeared to her in a dream. She wound up ordering ingredients from Africa and used them to create a a shampoo and an ointment. With her own scalp healed and her hair began growing as it never had before she became a walking advertisement for product she was making in her own home.

Eventually she was selling her product door to door.

In 1906 she married Charles Joseph Walker and Ms. C J Walker was born. Mr. Walker would help her with advertising the business. They would travel door to door together, selling her products and demonstrating the products. They would eventually divorce when Madam Walker wanted to expand the business and Mr. Walker did not.



Madam Walker would eventually open a beauty school and then a factory. She hired black women to be "Walker Agents." Forty to fifty years after slavery, there were few job opportunities for black women other than that of domestic, with a few lucky women able to become teachers and nurses. But thousands of black women gained economic independence working for Madam C J Walker.

As her company grew, she encouraged the black women that worked for her to stand for racial equality and the equality of women.  She wanted her Walker Agents to show themselves not just as professionals but as people who give back to the community. During her 1917 Convention for Walker Agents, Madam Walker gave prizes to women that sold the most product and got the most clients but also to women who gave the most to charity

At their Beauty Salons the walker agents would talk to clients about what black women could do to help their churches, their schools in their communities. (I'm reading a book right now that talks black women like these making the black church strong enough, connected to one another enough to make it good base for The Modern Civil Rights Movement a few decades later.

By 1910 The Walker Company had employed some 5000 black female agents around the world, and averaged revenues of about $1000 dollars a day, seven days a week...Upon her death in 1919, her will stipulated that two-thirds of her fortune go to various charities and that her company always be controlled by a woman



Contributor to the Black Women's Club Movement, Madam Walker was also a part of black suffrage and also the anti-lynching movement. She was a signer on the letter to President Woodrow Wilson, demanding that he make lynching a federal crime. She seems to have counted Ida B Wells, the original anti-lynching activist, as a friend and also contributed money to the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign.

She became famous nationwide when she contributed $1000 to the building fund of a YMCA for young black boys.  And it sounds like she may have built something in Indianapolis that sounds like one of the first malls, the Madam Walker Theater Center....



Madam C. J. Walker

Naturalista

Employer Of Black Women

Philanthropist


Political Activist


First Woman in the United States, of any color, to become a self-made millionaire  





Saturday, December 22, 2018

WE NEED STRONG WOMEN


LYNCHING TO BECOME A FEDERAL CRIME AFTER MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF WHITE RESISTANCE

Feeling Rebloggy 
    In a legislative victory [well over]100 years in the making, the Senate unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that declares lynching a federal crime in the United States.

     The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act was a bipartisan effort introduced earlier this year by three African-American Senators: California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris, New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker and South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott. The bill, according to CNN’s Eli Watkins, deems lynching—or mob killings that take place without legal authority—as “the ultimate expression of racism in the United States,” and adds lynching to the list of federal hate crimes.
     Though the practice existed during the era of slavery in the United States, lynchings proliferated in the wake of the Civil War, when African-Americans began to establish businesses, build towns and even run for public office. “Many whites … felt threatened by this rise in black prominence,” according to PBS. In turn, the article reports, "most victims of lynching were political activists, labor organizers or black men and women who violated white expectations of black deference, and were deemed 'uppity' or 'insolent.'"
     ... The new bill states that
99 percent “of all perpetrators of lynching escaped from punishment by state or local officials....
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-200-failed-attempts-us-has-made-lynching-federal-crime-180971092/#95hhf2CdYi4oKyJM.99


Tomorrow: 
An Introduction To The U.S. History of Whites Lynching Blacks For Profit

Thursday, December 20, 2018

PRESIDENT OBAMA MAKES A SURPRISE VISIT AS SANTA CLAUS

Feeling Rebloggy

     Watch out, Santa: Former president Barack Obama is coming for your sleigh.

     With a fluffy red cap and a bulging bag slung over his shoulder, Obama delivered presents (and more than a few gasps) to the young patients at Children’s National hospital in Northwest Washington on Wednesday.
     First on Obama’s list was a group of patients 4 and up who were making snowflakes in one of the hospital’s playrooms. After the excitement died down, the former president handed out jigsaw puzzles (which were his grandmother’s favorite, he told the crowd), Hot Wheels sets, remote-control cars, and glittery nail polish, among other goodies collected by Obama and his staffers. Hey, the guy knows his audience.
     “I know they will be talking about it for years to come,” said Kurt Newman, chief executive and president of Children’s National Health System. “At such a busy time of year, when no one wants to be in the hospital, his natural warmth lifted the spirits of those kids, their parents and of each staff member he met along the way.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/12/19/barack-obama-dons-santa-hat-hands-out-gifts-surprise-visit-dc-childrens-hospital/?

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The Hidden Figure Of GPS Inventor Dr Gladys West Inducted Into Air Force Hall Of Fame

Feeling Rebloggy
     Gladys West is one of the people whose work was instrumental in developing the mathematics behind GPS.     Until now, her story has remained untold.
     When Mrs West started her career at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in the US state of Virginia in 1956, just one other black woman and two black men worked alongside her.
     "I carried that load round, thinking that I had to be the best that I could be," she says.
     Inspired by the re-telling of her sorority sister’s engineering success in the now classic film “Hidden Figures”, a Virginia woman named Gladys West is coming forward with her hidden history and involvement in created a technology most of us use everyday—GPS. As it turns out, like her sorority sister, West is also an important forgotten figure of technological advancement in the U.S. before and during the Civil Rights movement. This time, its West’s work on the modern day GPS system during her 42-year career at the Navy base in Dahlgren where her work was essential to her team which developed the Global Positioning System in the 1950s and 1960s.

https://blavity.com/dr-gladys-west-who-helped-develop-the-gps-inducted-into-air-force-space-and-missile-pioneers-hall-of-fame

HAPPY 94th BIRTHDAY CICELY TYSON



I sat a few seats down from Cicely Tyson during an Alvin Ailey performance. (Yes. I am serious about my Alvin Ailey performances. I get good seats.)  She and eventually Danny Glover, stepped over us as they went out to the lobby during intermission. A friend, who cannot not be taken anywhere nice, had Danny Glover looking down at us strangely. 


Once he was out of earshot, Jesse sing-songed, "I touched his leg."  Oh my gawd. I was laughing hysterically as she followed up with, "Hard as a rock." I swear, I really didn't know what was going on when he gave us that look, but I digress.

I saw Cicely Tyson in THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, with Blair Underwood, a decade later, She did this long, Long, LONG soliloquy. And she was in her late 80s if she was a day. I kept looking for the monitor that she must have been reading from at her age. I couldn't find it.  And I'm sure she wasn't -- she was looking left, right, down at her feet -- not at a monitor anywhere that I could see.  It seems to me that she had memorized this long, long speech that she had to give near the end of the play when she was in her late 80s. 


I couldn't remember that long a speech in my 20s. 


She's awesome.

She was born awesome

She will always be awesome.

Dear Lord, Please let her live forever. 


HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ms. TYSON.
She is currently playing Annalise Keatings Mother (Viola Davis, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER)  


See more here:



Read More: 
https://www.emmys.com/news/cicely-tyson-rich-and-bountiful-life

BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM


Tuesday, December 18, 2018

LINDA BROWN OF BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION DIES AT THE AGE OF 76

  Feeling Rebloggy  
 Linda Brown, who as a schoolgirl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that rejected racial segregation in American schools, died in Topeka, Kan., Sunday afternoon. She was 76.
     Her sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, confirmed the death to The Topeka Capital-Journal.
     The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, involved several families, all trying to dismantle decades of federal education laws that condoned segregated schools for black and white students. But it began with Brown's father Oliver, who tried to enroll her at the Sumner School, an all-white elementary school in Topeka just a few blocks from the Browns' home.
     The school board prohibited the child from enrolling and Brown, an assistant pastor at St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, was angry that his daughter had to be shuttled miles away to go to school. He partnered with the NAACP and a dozen other plaintiffs to file a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education.
     By 1952 the U.S. Supreme Court had on its docket similar cases from Delaware, the District of ColumbiaSouth Carolina, and Virginia. They all challenged the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools.
     Two years later the court unanimously ruled to strike down the doctrine of "separate but equal." The justices agreed that it denied 14th Amendment guarantees of equal protection under the law.