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 ...

Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Her father, Oliver Brown, tried to ...

"Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--T.p. verso. Cover photograph: "The Trouble We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell." Contents The ruling that changed America / Juan Williams -- I: Its impact ...

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 ...

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) - 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 ...

Minnijean Brown-Trickey is one of the original members of the Little Rock Nine, the teenagers who integrated Central High School after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. She shares her Brief ...

Opponents of desegregation used legal maneuvers, school closures, intimidation, and violence to maintain racially segregated schools. The "Southern Manifesto," signed by many Southern members of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The collective memory of school desegregation is of anger and division, like in this photo of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford ...

Jeffery Benson, Sacramento State’s Class of 2025’s President Medal’s recipient during the College of Education’s Spring Commencement on May 17, 2025. Benson’s relatives were among the 13 plaintiffs of ...