In this episode, we explore why brown v board targeted equal schools. If you're trying to win, like, a massive landmark lawsuit claiming that segregated public schools are fundamentally unequal, Common Sense says you should probably go out and find the absolute most rundown, underfunded, just neglected school possible to make your case right. Right. You have a glaring, undeniable visual of injustice. Exactly. But in the early 1950s, civil rights lawyers did the exact opposite. They went completely out of their way to find a segregated school district in Kansas, where the black schools and the white schools were perfectly equal. Which just sounds so counterintuitive at first. It really does. So today, we are taking a deep dive into the complex history and the massive ripple effects of the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. And for a ...