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64 Years After Brown v. Board of Education, Integration Has Not Helped Black People
Today, May 17, marks the 64th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), an event many have called a watershed moment in civil rights. On this day, more than six decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held that “separate but equal” facilities, as had been decided by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), are inherently unequal…
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Linda Brown, Whose Landmark Lawsuit Led to School Desegregation, Dead at 76
Linda Brown was a third-grader who was barred from attending an all-white school in her neighborhood. Her father, Oliver, filed a lawsuit that would become the basis of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, which led to the desegregation of schools. Brown died in Topeka, Kan., on Sunday. She was 76.…