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Spottswood and Oliver. Probably not the kind of names to set you trembling. Especially if they belonged to your opponents in the legal battle of the American Century. And that was just the way they liked it–underestimated all the way to the Supreme Court where the power of their arguments, and their facts, did all the winning.

Representing Prince Edward County students courageously led by a 16-year old Barbara Johns, and as one of 4 teams and cases comprising the Brown v. Board of Education decision, these men helped make “Separate but equal” a social non starter and a legal non sequitur.

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