Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme Court's landmark decision abolishing "separate but equal" schools in public education. School Integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C. Photo by ...
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A special event commemorating the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision will take place later this month at Washburn University. The event will take ...
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 ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - On May 17, 1954, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling brought an end to legal segregation in public schools, granting black students everywhere the right to equal ...
FAYETTEVILLE -- Martin Luther King Jr. understood very well the power and importance of education, so it's apropos to reflect on the impact of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling during ...
After Brown v. Board, White Citizens’ Councils spread across the South, using economic coercion to block desegregation.
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep ...