Civil Rights
May 10, 2004
Judicial System Narrowed Segregation Remedies in 1970s, 1990s
WASHINGTON - Advocates of school desegregation have learned that what the Supreme Court gives, it also can take away. On May 17, 1954, the court delivered a landmark victory, unanimously striking down the "separate but equal" doctrine that had controlled for 58 years. That doctrine has "no place ... in the field of public education," the court said in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
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