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Download full textGreene, Mary Frances – 2000
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas." State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was declared a violation of the 14th Amendment and was unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Primary Sources, Public Schools
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Direct linkRusso, Charles J. – Education and the Law, 2004
"Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" (1954) ("Brown I"), is the United States Supreme Court's most significant ruling on education, if not of all time. In "Brown I", the Court unanimously held that "de jure" racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth…
Descriptors: African American Children, Equal Education, School Desegregation, Racial Segregation
