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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
The case we know as Brown v. Board of Education actually began when parents in Summerton, S.C., filed a lawsuit against Clarendon County School Board President R.W. Elliott. In a school district ...
The Monroe County NAACP event, “70 Years Post-Brown: Looking to the Past, Transforming the Future,” will be at the Monroe County Public Library downtown branch at 3 p.m. The event is free and ...
By the fall of 1950, the Topeka NAACP had assembled a group of 13 parents to serve as plaintiffs for the case that would eventually be filed under the name of one of the parents, Oliver Brown, becoming known as Oliver L. Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka (KS). In the Topeka NAACP case, parents involved were concerned that their ...
Linda Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas, on February 20, 1943.She was the oldest of three daughters of Leola and Oliver Brown. [3] Oliver Brown was a welder and pastor. [4] [5] At the direction of the NAACP, Linda Brown's parents attempted to enroll her in nearby Sumner elementary school and were denied.
Sharpe in Washington, D.C. (1951); and Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas (1951). Although I was alive at the time, I was not a part of the decision-making as to why the case was named ...
He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall. [1] He was involved in numerous crucial cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools. [1] [2] In all, he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and won almost all of them. [3]
The original Brown v. Board of Education case was also litigated by lawyers with the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, the nation’s first civil rights law firm, which Marshall founded in 1940.