Our Legacy: Brown left chronicle of school segregation

Last week we celebrated the life of educator and historian Philip L. Brown. His loss was felt throughout the community as well as the state, but his legacy will live on through us and through his work forever.

He was born, raised and educated in this county, where he also spent 40 years as a teacher and educator. He has given us a comprehensive work that provides, for all who care to read, the history of Negro education for 100 years.

In his greatest achievement as an educator and historian, "A Century of Separate But Equal," Brown chronicles the establishment of Negro or colored schools in Annapolis and throughout...