Lau v. Nichols
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Court Cases, Rulings, Appeals, Supreme Court, U.S.
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Asian American History, Latino History
- Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: January 21, 1974
Article abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court decides that school districts must provide bilingual education to limited-English-speaking students.
Summary of Event
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbade school systems from segregating students into separate schools for only whites or African Americans. The decision effectively overturned a previous Court ruling, in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), that such facilities could be “separate but...
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