In this court, there have been six cases involving the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of public education. In Cumming v. County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528, the Gong Lum v.

The landmark case was Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954. Linda Brown Smith, Ethel Louise Belton Brown, Harry Briggs, Jr., and Spottswood Bolling, Jr. during press conference at Hotel Americana ...

Her father, Oliver Brown, became one of 13 plaintiffs to bring a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education. The case was initially ... overturn the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling which legally ...

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson was the start of ... Acting on behalf of Linda’s father, Oliver Brown, Marshall argued that the Topeka Board of Education was acting incorrectly because education ...

Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo This year marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the ...

The Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park commemorates this decision and the larger struggle for racial equality through educational exhibits and events on the grounds of Monroe ...

Board of Education ruling. Thomas criticizes "extravagant ... who as a lawyer was the architect of the Brown v. Board case.

At just eight years old, Sylvia Mendez became a key figure in Mendez v. Westminster, a landmark school desegregation case that laid the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education. Her family’s 1947 ...

in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled state-imposed racial segregation of schools unconstitutional. The ruling has become canonical. Opposition to its holding is now considered a ...

Prevost herself did not realize her role in history until high school, when a teacher assigned the class a project on Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ...

MidAmerica Nazarene University will study the Madam C.J. Walker School, which was the subject of an important desegregation ...

The American Journal of Law and Equality has just published a symposium on the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education ... not apply well to the Brown case itself, which famously ...