Brown V Board Of Education

Linda Brown thegrio.com
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.
/ March 26, 2018
UGA thegrio.com
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.”
/ February 7, 2018
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
(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.
/ May 17, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ May 15, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ April 21, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ January 15, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ July 23, 2013