its rosenwald alumni include likes of maya angelou and congress and john lewis. after the brown decision, ultimately all of the rosenwald schools were shut down. they were deemed unconstitutional, inherently unequal and intrinsically, simply because of the makeup of the student body that. went to the school. as someone who has now run public charter schools in low income communities in the bronx and lower east side of manhattan for the last 15 years, educating almost exclusively black and hispanic students, that is a perception that. if it's all black, it must be bad. that is a perception we to continue to fight against. as the supreme court put it in 54, as a brown board versus of education ruling, quote, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he she is denied the opportune ity of a quality education. the court described education as the very foundation of good and proclaimed that the of a quality education is a right which must be made available to all on equal. the lessons of brown teach us that neither the presence of w