Opponents of desegregation used legal maneuvers, school closures, intimidation, and violence to maintain racially segregated schools. The "Southern Manifesto," signed by many Southern members of ...
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 ...
The Brown v Board National Historic Park, 1515 SE Monroe in Topeka, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
The first council was established in Indianola, Mississippi, following the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. These groups used economic and social pressure to intimidate supporters ...
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Examining Brown v. Board, race and ‘equal protection’ through the eyes of the modern Supreme Court
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 ...
Minnijean Brown-Trickey is one of the original members of the Little Rock Nine, the teenagers who integrated Central High ...
The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...
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