The NEA's hypocrisy on race

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Sadly, it is only the 63rd anniversary of the National Education Association’s embrace of the decision.

Brown ended the noxious “separate but equal” doctrine and held that racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution. To its credit, the American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation’s leading public school teachers unions, supported the litigation effort, including by filing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Linda Brown and the other black students.