LDF and the lawyers that prepared the Brown cases, dared to imagine justice as colorblind. Their accomplishments have been essential to our collective dream of freedom. As I think about the recent voting in South Africa, where Black people, for the first time in 300 years, go to the polls, I reflect on the 40th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and what it has meant not only to African Americans, but to all Americans, because Brown was a decision which really rid this country of legal racial apartheid. When Brown was announced, I recall how elated we all were that the Supreme Court was at last speaking out about the meaning of the Constitution and giving hope to all of us that we too would be able to become a meaningful part of the society.