The landmark case was Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954 ... Library of Congress The case was named after Oliver Brown of Topeka, Kansas, an African American man whose daughter Linda faced ...

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 ...

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 ...