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a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C., on 28 August.
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It was passed as a part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty" and has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by Congress.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated in January 1969; promised "peace with honor" to end the Vietnam War.
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This act required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education and one free meal a day for children with physical and mental disabilities.
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I was born in Gros-Morne, Haiti in the front of my grandmother's house. I weighed 8 lbs and 8 oz.
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Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 hurricane, kills 65 people and causes $26 billion in damage to Florida and other areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast,
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News Coveragea domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The bombing claimed 168 lives[1] and injured more than 680 people. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, causing at least an estimated $652 million worth of damage.
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President Bush emphasized his deep belief in our public schools, but an even greater concern that “too many of
our neediest children are being left behind,” despite the nearly $200 billion in Federal spending since the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). -
