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As part of the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, plaintiffs in the original cases reflect on life under "separate but equal" and the conditions in ...

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At just eight years old, Sylvia Mendez became a key figure in Mendez v. Westminster, a landmark school desegregation case that laid the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education. Her family’s 1947 ...

Seventy years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It was the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan. What's ...

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A special event commemorating the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision will take place later this month at Washburn University. The event will take ...

The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo This ...