Photo: Two unlikely heroes of the overturn

[BurtWorm]

[spanone]

1. lawyers, they go where the money is.

[babylonsister]

2. Yea, but I don't know that that is what this judgment was all

about. I like to think they worked for equality and basic human rights. Besides, do either of them really need more money? I don't know, but I don't think either is/was hurting.

[Renew Deal]

3. There are easier places to go if you just want to make money.

[saigon68]

4. I think they did it because they really believed in it.

Olson has mellowed out since his wife was killed.

Besides there's nothing like a legacy of doing the right thing-- Look who represented the lead Plaintiff in Brown vs Board of education.

[saigon68]

5. Brown

The case of Brown v. Board of Education as heard before the Supreme Court combined five cases: Brown itself, Briggs v. Elliott (filed in South Carolina), Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (filed in Virginia), Gebhart v. Belton (filed in Delaware), and Bolling v. Sharpe (filed in Washington D.C.).

All were NAACP-sponsored cases. The Davis case, the only case of the five originating from a student protest, began when sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized and led a 450-student walkout of Moton High School.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

The NAACP's chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall—who was later appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967—argued the case before the Supreme Court for the plaintiffs.