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Chism, Kahlil; Potter, Lee Ann – Social Education, 2004
The Supreme Court's opinion in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case legally ended decades of racial segregation in America's public schools. Originally named after Oliver Brown, the first of many plaintiffs listed in the lower court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS, the landmark decision actually resolved five separate…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, African American Students, School Segregation, Racial Segregation