Barbara Rose Johns led a high school walkout that contributed to Brown v. Board of Education. She later graduated from Drexel ...

To mark the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (BOE) in 2024, The Baldy Center sponsored a community forum organized by LaGarret King The event opened with Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- 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 ...

The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo This ...

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 ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights icon long before he ever became the first African American Supreme Court Justice. In 1954, he successfully argued for the plaintiffs in the ...

If you ask someone to name the Supreme Court’s single greatest moment, many will cite the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. That landmark ruling, which unanimously found that the racial ...

A bas-relief portrait of William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., who served as counsel in the landmark desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, had become a permanent feature at the National ...

Modern day racial segregation continues to affect students of color due to the ongoing oppression and discrimination during ...

Students study in front of the campus mural “The Unfinished Dream,” which at the time of its creation in 1990 was meant to “portray UC Davis' transition to a campus of true diversity, reflecting the ...

An atrium at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey renamed after the school's first two Black students is seeing its first school year, which started this week. Students will walk through the ...

With the words "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the U.S. Supreme Court reversed more than a half century of legalized segregation. The landmark case was Brown v. Board of ...