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Opinion
Published
10/14/09
The distinguished educator and author Philip L. Brown, who died last week, was born four weeks before the founding of the NAACP but lived to see the inauguration of the nation's first African-American president. That came just four days after Brown turned 100. Find Us On Facebook
Brown didn't just witness history, he helped to make it. In the late 1930s, he led the legal fight to get equal pay for Anne Arundel County's African-American teachers. It was a brave fight, conducted in an era in which this county's school superintendent could claim, in court, that the gross pay discrepancy was perfectly fair because his worst white teacher...
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