ABSTRACT
Greetings all! It is with great pleasure and gratitude that I open these pages of Educational Studies, Volume 37, No.1. This issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board ofEducation ofTopeka, Kansas. I am grateful on many different levels: first, to the children, families, civil rights activists, and lawyers who made that decision possible; second, to the members of the Supreme Court who had the courage to stand up and make the decision; and last, to all the school personnel and community members who supported the students who first ventured out to take those often-treacherous steps into formerly all-White schools. What an incredible, albeit contradictory and difficult, accomplishment.
