Biden marks 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education at African American history museum
Speaking at the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Friday, President Biden marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that segregating schools on the basis of race is unconstitutional.
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So many, so many people here today, you changed the world 70 years ago, you changed.
I say the world that's not hyperbole and I'm not exaggerating now.
It changed the United States.
It changed our role in the world in a fundamental way.
I know there's a lot more to do together the N A AC P and this museum are monuments of the power of Black history.
And Black history is American history.
It's American.
No, it's a really important thing to continue to.
We have a whole group of people out there trying to rewrite history, trying to erase history.
It's a tribute to heroes known and unknown who pursued our nation's North Star.
We're unique among all nations of the world.
And I mean that every other nation is based on ethnicity but based on religion and other things.
But we're the only one based on an idea.
We hold these truths to be self e that all men are created equal and die by their creator with certain inevitable rights and should be treated equally their whole lives throughout their lives.
We've never fully lived up to that idea to state the office, but we've never walked away from either because of so many of you in this room and so many more.
She 70 years ago when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown versus Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
A prayer was answered in a long struggle for freedom.
Yesterday.
I welcome the family of plaintiffs of that landmark case to the White House, to the oval office.
Their office once upon a time, they were excluded from certain classrooms.
But 70 years later, they're inside the most important rooms of all the oval office where they belong.
The living reminder that once upon a time wasn't that long ago and all the progress we've made is still had more to do and there's still groups are trying to erase it.
