Sentences with phrase «desegregation case brown»

In a blunt, unsparing 16 - page opinion, Treu compared his ruling to the seminal federal desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, decided 60 years ago last month.

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In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

In 1974, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall captured this in a dissent in Milliken v. Bradley, a case that rolled back the desegregation efforts called for in Brown v. Board.

Wolters constructs a largely chronological history since the first half century of the 1954 Brown decision, and his case studies of desegregation - in - action are drawn from contemporary news coverage and subsequent historical, legal, and political science scholarship.

After winning a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, civil rights advocates spent decades making and re-making the case for school desegregation.

The film looks at case studies in present day Little Rock, New York, and Los Angeles through a critical, historical lens, applying lessons learned during the period of desegregation after Brown v. Board and the experiences of the Little Rock Nine to the current state of education.

The plaintiffs in Davis, along with others in NAACP school desegregation suits filed in Clarendon County, South Carolina; New Castle County, Delaware; and in Washington, D.C., would eventually be added under the umbrella of a larger desegregation case headlined by Topeka, Kansas» Brown v. Board of Education.6

After BAEO and NAPCS released their signed letter from over 160 Black educational leaders, I had the chance to hop on the phone with a few of the signees — Cheryl Henderson Brown, founding president and CEO of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research and daughter of plaintiff Oliver Brown of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case, Sekou Biddle, UNCF's vice president of advocacy, and Steve Perry, founder and head of schools of Capital Preparatory Schools.

Henderson Brown is the daughter of plaintiff Oliver Brown of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case.