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) ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights icon long before he ever became the first African American Supreme Court Justice. In 1954, he successfully argued for the plaintiffs in the ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Here's what you need to know about the landmark US Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. About the Case: The first plaintiff was Oliver Brown, an African-American welder and ...

TOPEKA, Kansas -- Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Her father, Oliver ...

It’s been nearly 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” segregation in the school system was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, but the Monroe County NAACP ...

File - A plaque on the front of Hockessin School #107C. (Sarah Mueller/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A trio ...

With the words "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the U.S. Supreme Court reversed more than a half century of legalized segregation. The landmark case was Brown v. Board of ...

To mark the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (BOE) in 2024, The Baldy Center sponsored a community forum organized by LaGarret King The event opened with Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo ...