CHICAGO (WLS) -- Words that changed America reach out through history. Friday is the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, ending legally enforced ...

Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Brown v. Board of Education decision, finding that racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional. The court’s ruling ...

It was Feb. 23, 1966, and Frederick K. Brewington was a third grader in Malverne, walking into one of Long Island’s biggest struggles for racial equality. The state education commissioner had made the ...

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas – the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared “separate but equal” education unconstitutional in the United States – remains one of the most ...

This week marks 70 years since the Supreme Court's landmark civil rights ruling of Brown v. Board of Education integrated public education. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Annette Gordon Reed of ...

On May 17, 1954, the day when Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the historic civil rights decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the only people who heard him were inside the U.S. Supreme Court.