On this day 65 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that schools in the United States should no longer operate under the failed ethos of “separate but equal” and instead must move to integrate their student bodies “with all deliberate speed.” New York City schools have not achieved the dream of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.

On April 19, 1969, dozens of members of Cornell’s Afro-American Society and several Latino students occupied Willard Straight Hall for 36 hours to call attention to what they perceived as the university’s hostility toward students of color, its stu