Brown v. Board of Education
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Long before Brown v. Board of Education dismantled legal segregation in American public schools, Black lawyers were already fighting — and losing — in courtrooms across the United States. Those losses were not failures of vision or competence. They were deliberate steps in a long legal campaign that used the judiciary itself to expose the…
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The U.S. Capitol unveiled a new statue of civil rights pioneer Barbara Rose Johns on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, marking a historic replacement for the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The 11-foot bronze figure now represents Virginia in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Johns, at age 16, organized a landmark student strike in…
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In a move that has drawn sharp criticism from civil rights advocates, the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump quietly ended federal oversight of two landmark school desegregation cases that had been in place for more than half a century. The cases, originating in Hendry County, Florida, and Copiah County, Mississippi, were initiated…
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Introduction Brown v. Board of Education (1954) is one of the most significant cases in the history of U.S. constitutional law. This landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal” that had been established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and marked a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement.…
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