The heritage trail marker ceremony will start at 4 p.m. Monday at the Diversity Center at Historic Washington Avenue Baptist ...
The church was once home to the Rev. Oliver Brown, a civil rights advocate and minister who played a crucial role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. Drury officials will speak at ...
The civil rights movement is often framed around larger-than-life figures and landmark victories. Yet behind the marches and courtroom battles, countless Black fathers stood tall as anchors of ...
A group of Hillsboro mothers and their children marched for two years to desegregate their community’s schools.
Let us know! A trio of northern Delaware schools will join school buildings in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C., as part of Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.
Where there was public education, separate and unequal schools would become the norm, both for children of color and for immigrants. That only began to change with Brown v. Board of Education in 1955.
It's one of the most painful periods of America's history. It was just over 70 years ago, on May 17th, 1954, The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling that would change our educational ...
Board of Education. Mr. Marsh had grown up in Virginia ... As a student activist, he appeared before the state legislature in the wake of Brown v. Board to challenge a proposal to award private ...
Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was Richmond’s ...
This was about two months after the Montgomery bus boycott had begun, a little more than five months since the lynching of Emmett Till, and two years after Brown v. Board of Education established ...