Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week on the Lectures and History podcast, a discussion on the evolution of civil rights law and efforts to dismantle Jim Crow and Rachel segregation.

Texas A&M history professor Malachi Crawford outlines the civil rights movement in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision,

which declared public education segregation to be unconstitutional.

Class starts right after this.

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Today's class is over the fall of Jim Crow, Charles Hamilton, Houston, and the road to Brown versus Board of Education, 1954.

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