Brown v. Board

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October 3, 2001
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Equity & Diversity The Struggle for Integration: Introduction
Like a sharp knife slicing through the heart of 20th-century America, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka divides education in the past 100 years into two distinct eras.
March 24, 1999
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Equity & Diversity Deaths of Pivotal Figures in Brown Mark Passing of Desegregation Era
Forty-eight years ago, Homer Minus was one of nine black Delaware State College students who followed a young lawyer named Louis L. Redding down the path of racial equality.
Anjetta McQueen, October 21, 1998
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Equity & Diversity Opinion 'Brown Was Bigger Than Test Scores'
This year marks 42 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education. For African-Americans, Brown meant more than the mandate to desegregate public schools. It meant the end of the Plessy v. Ferguson era of officially sanctioned American apartheid. Brown split American history into B.C. and A.D., in which the promise of the Constitution's protection and of full participation in the life of our democracy finally applied to all its citizens. The Supreme Court's decision was one of the sparks that lighted the fires of the civil-rights movement. It stands as one of the defining moments in American history.
Theodore M. Shaw, February 7, 1996
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Education Appeals Court Ordered To Re-Examine Ruling in Brown
The U.S. Supreme Court last week set aside a 1989 appellate-court ruling that the Topeka, Kan., school system had not yet met its duty to desegregate more than 30 years after its central role in the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Mark Walsh, April 29, 1992
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Law & Courts Thomas's Stance on Brown v. Board Adds Fuel to Decades-Long Debate
To his opponents, Judge Thomas's comments on the Brown v. Board ruling offer one more reason why he is unfit to replace Thurgood Marshall.
Mark Walsh, September 11, 1991
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Education People
Kenneth B. Clark, the noted psychologist whose research on the harmful effects of racial segregation on children was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its historic Brown v. Board of Education decision, said this month that schools are failing to fulfill their responsibility to help eradicate racism from society.

"I believe that educational institutions are the chief instruments for the perpetuation of racism,'' Mr. Clark said at a symposium sponsored by the Scientists' Institute for Public Information.

May 13, 1987
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Education Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice Secretly Discussed Brown Case
The former U.S. Justice Department lawyer responsible for civil-rights cases in the 1950's has revealed that he and a key member of the U.S. Supreme Court at that time held frequent secret discussions regarding Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that began the process of integration in the public schools.
Tom Mirga, April 1, 1987
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Education Opinion Remembering the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education
For institutions, as for individuals, anniversaries are times for celebration, not criticism, festivity rather than fault-finding, and fulsome praise without parsimony.
Derrick Bell, June 6, 1984
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Education Opinion Brown v. Board of Education and the Black History Month Syndrome
February has become the time when we move through the series of racial-pride programs that are the now-predictable agenda of Black History Month. This year, I am also thinking ahead to the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Derrick Bell, February 22, 1984
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