“CANCELLED” - Steve Suitts - "Overturning Brown"

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum TheaterFree and Open to the PublicCivil rights activist Steve Suitts traces the rhetoric behind the modern school choice movement to its racist roots in this slim but persuasive investigation. Though contemporary reformers tout school choice as a “social justice issue”, Suitts reveals that tax credits and private school vouchers were advanced by Alabama state senator Albert Boutwell and other segregationists to blunt the impact of the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.