As we commemorate the 67th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Americans have much to learn about the legacy and unrealized promise that Brown represents. As a student of American history, a ...

Topeka superintendent on Brown v. Board of Ed. The district at the center of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which outlawed racial segregation in schools, is now helmed by its ...

Racial segregation in public schools and the controversial concept of "separate but equal" were unanimously declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, May 17, ...

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 ...

Nearly 70 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the historic ruling on school desegregation is still being debated, and some aspects of it are, in a sense, ...

Seventy years after the Supreme Court acknowledged that “separate but equal” had no place in the United States, one of history’s most celebrated legal opinions is being used by conservative groups to ...

Kansas Historical Society curator Donna Rae Pearson in front of the Broad v. Board of Education mural in Topeka, Kansas. She is also the co-owner of Other Roads Consulting, Inc. Lead plaintiff Oliver ...

By R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy — May 15, 2024 4 min read The segregation that was meant to be uprooted with the Brown decision not only persisted, but it has grown, and today, we stand at a critical ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I still remember where I was on May 17, 1954 when I first heard that the ...

Legislation signed Thursday redesignates Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site as Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park. That legation also adds two school sites ...

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 ...

On May 17, America celebrates the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. This landmark decision mandating the racial desegregation of our nation’s public schools has had both lasting effects ...