Milbank Associate Gary Crosby helped the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) achieve victory in an Alabama school desegregation fight.
His father’s experience attending a segregated Alabama school in the 1960s made it all the more meaningful.
Crosby and the LDF won reversal of a federal trial court’s decision that Gardendale, Ala., could leave the more racially diverse Jefferson County school system and carve out its own.
The victory came in a long-running suit.
The LDF sued the Jefferson County School District in 1965 to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The court-ordered ...
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