Sentences with phrase «banned racial segregation»

Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, which banned racial segregation in the schools, the basic principle of American education has been equality of educational opportunity.

Making democracry work In his recent book, Making Democracy Work, Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court recalls the risk that a decision of the court banning racial segregation in the educational system might fail to be accepted in the state of Arkansas.

Not exact matches

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

With a nod to Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's 1954 decision banning state - imposed racial segregation in schools, the Rodriguez court recognized «the vital role of education in a free society.»