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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.
By KIMBERLY HEFLING and JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Many inequities in education ...
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 landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling may have paved the way for more equal and integrated schools, but fierce – and continued – opposition to integration means the ruling in no way ...
In fact, the city was a leader of school desegregation in the South, even housing a few small schools that were minimally integrated before the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. Despite this initial breakthrough, however, full desegregation of the schools was a far cry from reality in Nashville in the mid-1950s, and thus 22 ...
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park was established in Topeka, Kansas, on October 26, 1992, by the United States Congress to commemorate the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Brown v. Board of Education aimed at ending racial segregation in public schools.
The 70-year anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case also marks the first year without race-conscious admissions in universities.
Linda Carol Brown (February 20, 1943 – March 25, 2018) was an American campaigner for equality in education. As a school-girl in 1954, Brown became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. [1] [2] Brown was in