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 ...
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 ...
The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo ...
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 ...