Brown v. Board of Educationin a sentence
- In fact, it was in the 1950s, after racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, that many Southern states erected Confederate flags atop their state government buildings.† (source)
- Erasing the blackboard before we could finish our copying, she spoke breathlessly about Brown v. Board of Education.† (source)
- Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which dictated that schools be desegregated, many black CPS students continued to attend schools that were nearly all-black.† (source)
- Since the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling by the Supreme Court, which ordered that schools be integrated, tension between whites and blacks in the South has reached an all-time high, and events such as the murder of Emmett Till are no longer an exception.† (source)
- The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
- The daily papers were full of news about the Brown v. Board of Education case.† (source)
- How COULD I EVER FORGET MAY 17, 1954, THE DAY the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that separate public schools for whites and blacks were illegal?† (source)