US president marks Brown v. Board of Education anniversary

WASHINGTON

US President Joe Biden on Friday marked the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education ruling as he tries to shore up support among Black Americans during the upcoming election.

"Seventy years ago, you changed the world," Biden said at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.

Biden said he welcomed plaintiffs of the lawsuit and their family members to the Oval Office on Thursday and pointed to the progress that has been made since the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation in public schools.

"Black history is American history. It's American. 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," he said.

Biden has stepped up efforts to highlight his administration’s commitment to racial equity and to Black voters more generally in the midst of the election campaign.