ABSTRACT
The Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 opinion in Brown v. Board of Education overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal” embraced by the Court in its infamous 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision. The Brown decision ushered in a dramatic 15-year period of unprecedented legal, political, economic, and educational measures directed towards dismantling the structures of racism and oppression instituted as a result of segregation. All of the law professors who met at the original CRT workshop taught in predominantly white law schools, and most of them were among the first persons of color hired to teach at their respective institutions. In the late 1970s, a movement composed of predominantly white neo-Marxist, New Left, and counter-culturalist intellectuals emerged within the legal academy. The victim’s perspective and the perpetrator’s perspective were introduced in an article written by Alan Freeman.
