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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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

File - A plaque on the front of Hockessin School #107C. (Sarah Mueller/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A trio ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 1st, 2021 - Buy Brown Vs. Board of Education: Segregation to Integration and Civil Rights DVD ...

Obverse Image: Four central bust-length portraits of Reverend DeLaine, Harry and Eliza Briggs and Levi Pearson, accompany each name. Two cabbage palmettos, the state tree of South Carolina, flank the ...

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.