Brown v. Board of Education was also about school choice

why. Contrary to “the popular narrative,” the Browns didn’t think the local all-black school in any way ill-served their daughter. Leola Brown actually attended that same school, saying of the experience, “We got a fantastic education there.” The problem for little Linda was getting there — her mother“[s]he had to go five blocks … through the [dangerous] railroad yard, and then cross the busy Kansas Avenue,” only then to take a bus.

But even if the court missed the point, we shouldn’t. As the drive for school choice gains momentum in statehouses across the country, we would do well to remember its origins not as some abstract social policy, but as a civil right. The school choice movement carries on the legacy of, and on the anniversary of that victory for parental rights, we owe thanks to Oliver and Leola Brown.

Charles Brandt is a J.D. candidate at the George Washington University Law School and a writer with Young Voices.

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