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 ...

When the Supreme Court delivered its historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling 70 years ago on May 17, the goal was to ...

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 ...

In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, ...

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas – the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared “separate but equal” education unconstitutional in the United States – remains one of the ...

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 ...

In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” With this landmark decision, the United States put an end to racially segregated schools on ...

The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling struck ... They hoped to overturn the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling which legally sanctioned the idea of racially segregated facilities.

Sixty-six years ago this month, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most famous decisions, Brown v. Board of Education. Unanimously, the justices struck down legally enforced public school ...

The Southern president, who kept his head down directly following Brown v. Board of Education, would eventually declare that ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education. For the past 70 years, race discrimination in public schools has been illegal and ...