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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 ...
A little more than a month after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown, on June 26, 1954, [note 1] Senator Byrd vowed to stop integration attempts in Virginia's schools. By the end of that summer, Governor Thomas B. Stanley, a member of the Byrd Organization, had appointed a Commission on Public Education, consisting of 32 white Democrats and chaired by Virginia Senator Garland "Peck" Gray of ...
The editors of these newspapers recognized the momentous nature and symbolic importance of the decision. [27] Immediately, Brown v. Board of Education proved to be a catalyst in inciting the push for equal rights in southern communities, just as Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall had hoped when they devised the legal strategy behind it. [28]
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine that had been enshrined in constitutional law ...
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 ...