Board of Education, in 1954. Linda Brown Smith, Ethel Louise Belton Brown ... if not for them, then for their children. Most of the South remained vehemently opposed. In Mississippi, considered ...
When the Supreme Court delivered its historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling 70 years ago on May 17, the goal was to ...
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 ...
A group of Hillsboro mothers and their children marched for two years to desegregate their community’s schools.
Acting on behalf of Linda’s father, Oliver Brown, Marshall argued that the Topeka Board of Education ... He said that the education available to black children was not, in reality, equal to ...
In each instance, they had been denied admission to schools attended by white children under laws ... in the field of public education. In Cumming v. County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 ...