Oliver Brown, an African American welder and assistant pastor, brings a case against the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his 9-year-old daughter, Linda Brown, to attend Sumner Elementary ...

MERRIAM, Kan. — United States representatives Sharice Davids, Emanuel Cleaver II and Jake LaTurner are calling on the National Park Service to incorporate local history into the Brown v. Board of ...

If you ask someone to name the Supreme Court’s single greatest moment, many will cite the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. That landmark ruling, which unanimously found that the racial ...

At just eight years old, Sylvia Mendez became a key figure in Mendez v. Westminster, a landmark school desegregation case that laid the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education. Her family’s 1947 ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court ruling declaring that racial segregation in public schools violated the U.S. Constitution. To honor the ...

Topeka city leaders are protecting the history behind a Topeka landmark. Tuesday night, the governing body body voted to ...

Feb. 18, 2005 -- -- When Sylvia Mendez was 9 years old in Orange County, Calif., she went to Hoover Elementary School. She wanted to go to the Westminster School 10 blocks away, but she wasn't allowed ...

MERRIAM, Kan. (KCTV) - It’s a piece of history unknown to many; A small church in what is now Merriam, Kansas, was once a school that had a major impact on the history of the United States. The Madam ...

When learning about integration in American public schools, most of our education starts with the 1954 Supreme Court Case Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. This landmark decision ...

Massachusetts was one of the first states to abolish slavery in its Constitution, and by 1790, there was no record of any enslaved people living there. This newly freed Black community settled onto ...