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

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

When learning about integration in American public schools, most of our education starts with the 1954 Supreme Court Case Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. This landmark decision ...

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 ...

Massachusetts was one of the first states to abolish slavery in its Constitution, and by 1790, there was no record of any enslaved people living there. This newly freed Black community settled onto ...