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Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76.

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In 1961, the University of Georgia (UGA) became the first college in the deep South to integrate. In January of that year, a judge ruled that Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were “fully qualified for immediate admission” and “would already have been admitted had it not been for their race and color.”

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(AP) – Obama met Friday in the White House East Room with families of the plaintiffs, lead attorneys Jack Greenberg and William Coleman and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Segregation is making a comeback in U.S. schools. Progress toward integrated classrooms has largely been rolled back since the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision 60 years ago…

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OPINION – Not much has changed since Brown, and in many ways it’s almost as if it never happened. The schools and neighborhoods still remain as segregated as ever…

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OPINION – Ever since the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Little Rock, Arkansas has been a crucial battleground in the fight for desegregation in this country…

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OPINION – As the first African American president, Obama was able to speak to the experiences of black Americans in a way no other president in our history could…