As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor ...

After Brown v. Board struck down school segregation in 1954, Southern leaders fought back with laws, intimidation, school ...

After Brown v. Board, White Citizens’ Councils spread across the South, using economic coercion to block desegregation.

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 ...

Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on the steps of the Supreme Court. Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court's ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that ...

Learn all about racial segregation and how the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education led to integration and civil rights. What is a "sit-in?" What is the NAACP? Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (KABC) -- Before there was Brown v. Board of Education, there was Mendez v. Westminster. The federal case involving an Orange County family helped pave the way for desegregation of ...

Feb. 18, 2005 -- -- When Sylvia Mendez was 9 years old in Orange County, Calif., she went to Hoover Elementary School. She wanted to go to the Westminster School 10 blocks away, but she wasn't allowed ...