Sentences with phrase «public schools unconstitutional»

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Another six years would pass before the Supreme Court declared racially segregated public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.

What began as a quite protest in his Philadelphia high school became Supreme Court case Abington v. Schempp, which declared Bible readings and prayer in public schools unconstitutional.

May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, declaring segregated — «separate but equal» — public schools unconstitutional.

Nearly a year after declaring Montana's system of paying for its public schools unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court early this month relinquished its jurisdiction over the school - finance case.

On May 14, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered a unanimous decision by declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

It had been three years since the Supreme Court had declared «separate but equal» in America's public schools unconstitutional, but the decision was met with bitter resistance across the South.