With the words "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the Supreme Court reversed legalized segregation in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Explore this ...
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 ...
It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the nine justices unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that schools segregated by race ...
The American Journal of Law and Equality has just published a symposium on the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, possibly the Supreme Court's most iconic decision. The symposium ...
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 ...
Last week, I wrote about trends in school segregation in the 70 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared racial segregation in schools ...