Sentences with phrase «segregated public schools unconstitutional»

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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.

The Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty, in a statement explaining the suit filed late last month, charges that mobile vans, leased facilities, and «segregated classrooms in public schools» are unconstitutional means of providing remedial services for religious - school stuPublic Education and Religious Liberty, in a statement explaining the suit filed late last month, charges that mobile vans, leased facilities, and «segregated classrooms in public schools» are unconstitutional means of providing remedial services for religious - school stupublic schools» are unconstitutional means of providing remedial services for religious - school students.

In contrast to the ostensibly integrated schools north of the Mason - Dixon line, the city's public schools were rigidly segregated until the celebrated Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court in 1954, which declared school segregation unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that schools could no longer be segregated and that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional.

It had been nine years since Brown v. Board of Education, the historic Supreme Court decision establishing that it was unconstitutional to segregate public school children.