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Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case, Cheryl Brown Henderson, second from right, John Stokes, second from left, and Nathaniel Briggs, ...

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...

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 ...

Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the landmark ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Before then, the court had been content with a ...

The resegregation of America’s public schools has led to the same inequitable public education funding that prompted the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision. Was anyone really surprised when it was ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Public Library (KCPL) acknowledged the 70th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education Tuesday with the stories of the women behind the landmark ruling. Donna Rae ...

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received his fair share of criticism for his staunchly conservative rulings and his attempts to downplay racism in the United States. But Justice Thomas may ...

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 ...