Brown v. Board of Education Ends Public School Segregation
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Teaching, Teachers, Court Cases, Rulings, Appeals, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Supreme Court, U.S., Human Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, African American History
- Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: May 17, 1954
Article abstract: For almost sixty years, racial segregation had been established by law in the United States; the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education changed race relations.
Summary of Event
Segregation of blacks and whites in the United States is the most obvious of the racial problems that have faced the nation, because black people form its largest racial minority and have been the object of laws, as well as customs, which have kept them from full participation in social and economic life. Many of the laws imposing racial...
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