Established by Congress in 2001, the commission planned activities marking the 50thanniversary this year of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown decision, which
outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
Those began in 1954, when the Supreme Court issued its ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education, which
outlawed racial segregation in schools.
Congress was not about to
outlaw racial segregation in 1954, for example, and plenty of prominent educators declared A Nation at Risk wrong in 1983.
The Buchanan ruling
outlaws racial segregation ordinances, which set aside certain blocks where only African - Americans can live.