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Author Archives: Kimberly Manns

Kimberly Manns is the managing director of Early Matters Dallas, an early childhood collective impact organization of more than 150 local partners. She is the former deputy director of policy and communications for the mayor of Baltimore and a public voices fellow through The OpEd Project.

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Students at Barnard Elementary School in Washington, D.C., one of the first schools to desegregate after Brown. (Library of Congress)
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Six decades later, Brown v. Board of Education ruling is still only an aspiration

by Kimberly Manns April 19, 2018March 30, 2020

Nearly 68 years ago as a third-grader, Linda Brown was denied access to an all-white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas. Her death last month was a reminder that we have failed to honor the basic tenet of the U.S. Constitution that “all men are created equal” in the case her father brought forward. Millions of Americans […]

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