Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, December 1st, 2004
IT IS A SPECIAL HONOUR to be admitted as a foreign member of your country's first learned society. The Society is distinctively American, but its founders were citizens of the world-cosmopolitan in their pursuit of useful knowledge and ideas. It is also a particular personal pleasure to be asked to speak at the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education under the firm moderating influence of Judge Louis H. Pollak, sharing the session with William T. Coleman Jr. I have been privileged to know each of them for many years. In his history of Brown, Richard Kluger recalled2 the part they p...
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