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Direct linkJackson, Barbara Loomis – Educational Policy, 2008
This article explores the legacies of the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education" Supreme Court decision within the historical context of race relations in the United States. The pursuit by African Americans to exercise their rights of citizenship is described as influenced by the changing face of fear. The Supreme Court decisions that…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Relations, Educational Change, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedMarshall, Thurgood – Social Policy, 1987
The Constitution is a living document whose meaning was not fixed forever at the Philadelphia Convention. Focuses on the slavery compromise and the Fourteenth Amendment to demonstrate defects of the document and its promising evolution through 200 years of American history. (PS)
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Download full textGreene, Mary Frances – 2000
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas." State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was declared a violation of the 14th Amendment and was unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Primary Sources, Public Schools
