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Denton Record Chronicle
March 1, 2018
Desegregation went from courts to college campuses to public schools after the Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" principle in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in 1954. The University of North Texas quietly desegregated in 1954, although black students couldn't stay inÃâà...
Pine Bluff Commercial
March 1, 2018
According to encyclopediaofarkansas.net, in early 1956, Branton Sr. filed suit against the Little Rock School Board for failing to integrate the public schools properly after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision. Branton's suit precipitated the desegregation ofÃâà...
TIME
March 1, 2018
Borrowing language from the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which declared that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Kerner Commission concluded, “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, and one white—separateÃâà...
WRIC
March 1, 2018
Ghee, who went on to become a civil rights lawyer, was honored Sunday by the Democratic Party of Virginia for his role during Massive Resistance – when white political leaders defied the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling and sought to prevent the racial integration of schools. Rather thanÃâà...
AL.com
March 1, 2018
That's what happened to most black teachers in the south in the aftermath of the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision to desegregate schools as part of the Brown v. Board of Education case that proved separate schools to be fundamentally unequal. While the result of the case was a victory for civilÃâà...
The Atlantic
February 28, 2018
Brown v. Board of Education, with its affirmation in 1954 that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” is easily the most famous desegregation case. But much of the hard work of actually integrating schools came later, starting in earnest with a 1968 Supreme Court case called Green v.
The Badger Herald
February 27, 2018
Used to justify judicial outcomes in monumental cases like Brown V. Board of Education, Loving V. Virginia and Griswold V. Connecticut, the 14th Amendment is generally used to legally defend victims of discrimination across identities, including those not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Kansas City Star
February 11, 2018
Artist Michael Young grew up in Lansing, Kan., and remembers visiting the state capitol in Topeka on a middle school field trip. The massive dome was impressive enough, but inside the rotunda Young's child eyes fixed on murals depicting significant moments in the state's history on the walls of thisÃâà...
Tribune-Review
December 31, 1999
Overturning mistaken decisions is an occasional duty of the Supreme Court, whose noblest achievement was the repudiation, with Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and subsequent decisions, of its 1896 ruling that segregated “separate but equal” public facilities were constitutional. On Monday, it willÃâà...
