Oliver Brown, an African American welder and assistant pastor, brings a case against the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his 9-year-old daughter, Linda Brown, to attend Sumner Elementary ...
In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...
If you ask someone to name the Supreme Court’s single greatest moment, many will cite the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. That landmark ruling, which unanimously found that the racial ...
Opponents of desegregation used legal maneuvers, school closures, intimidation, and violence to maintain racially segregated schools. The "Southern Manifesto," signed by many Southern members of ...
Delaware leaders gathered to celebrate Hockessin Colored School's contributions to school integration. Former student James "Sonny" Knott was among other former students at the event. Gov. Meyer, Sen.
As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - On May 17, 1954, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling brought an end to legal segregation in public schools, granting black students everywhere the right to equal ...
"Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--T.p. verso. Cover photograph: "The Trouble We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell." Contents The ruling that changed America / Juan Williams -- I: Its impact ...
The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...
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