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Start of Brown v. Education
This case was a coordinated group of five lawsuits against school districts in Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and the District of Columbia starting in December 1952 -
Oral Argument
The Supreme Court ordered the parties to answer a series of questions about the specific intent of the Congressmen and Senators who framed the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and about the Court’s power to dismantle segregation. Then they held and oral argument during December 1953. -
Separate but equal
On this day, the Supreme Court declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” unconstitutional and handed LDF the most celebrated victory in its storied history -
Green v. County School Board
Supreme court ruled (9–0) that a “freedom-of-choice” provision in a Virginia school boards desegregation plan -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States -
Speech in Philadelphia
Obama observed in a 2008 speech in Philadelphia, “segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education – and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today’s black and white students”