WASHINGTON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, nearly 50 years to the day after the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared that all children, regardless of their race, were entitled to receive a quality education, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) joined with other congressional and education leaders from across the country for a roundtable discussion entitled, "Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board." The roundtable launches the national initiative, Eleanor & Brown, to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of the Brown decision and the human rights legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt-Seagraves. The initiative, created by the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA), the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK) and the College Board (CB), intends to build support for furthering equity in education and eliminating the achievement gap. Today's launch of the Eleanor & Brown initiative will be followed, in late summer 2004, by a daylong session that will be convened to bring together representatives from NUA and partner school districts to share their ongoing activities related to eliminating the achievement gap and pertinent to the themes of Eleanor & Brown. The representatives will also work together to formulate action plans for the coming school year. The initiative will culminate in a special event in Washington, D.C., in 2005 where the founders of the Eleanor & Brown initiative and participating school districts will share and celebrate their years' successes.