Your Experiences of School Segregation Or Integration?
70 years after Brown v. Board, schools are re-segregating
Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the landmark Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, KS. It was "a turning point in American history," wrote Boston College History Professor Heather Cox Richardson. Read her backgrounder.
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