President Joe Biden marked this week's 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck down institutionalized racial segregation in public schools by welcoming plaintiffs and family members in the landmark case to the White House. The Oval Office visit Thursday to commemorate the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision to desegregate schools comes with Biden stepping up efforts to highlight his administration's commitment to racial equity.
“I don’t accept the premise that there’s any erosion of Black support” for Biden, said NAACP President Derrick Johnson, who took part in the Oval Office visit. 'This election is not about candidate A vs. candidate B. It’s about whether we have a functioning democracy or something less than that.' Among those who took part in the meeting were John Stokes, a Brown plaintiff, and Cheryl Brown Henderson, whose father, Oliver Brown, was the lead plaintiff in the Brown case.
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