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Brown Revisited, a commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the decision in the first set of cases created by the Oyez.org team; Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Digital Library. "Supreme Court Landmark Case Brown v. Board of Education" from C-SPAN's Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions; Galloway, Russell W. Jr. (1989).
Date: August 9, 2014; 10 years ago (): Time: 12:01–12:03 p.m. ()Location: Ferguson, Missouri, U.S.: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Homicide, police shooting: Participants: Darren Wilson (shooter); Michael Brown (deceased); Dorian Johnson (accompanied Brown); Deaths: Michael Brown: Non-fatal injuries: Darren Wilson: Charges: None: Litigation: Wrongful death lawsuit settled for undisclosed amount: On ...
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: Racial Segregation: 347 U.S. 483 (1954) reversed the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, "separate ... inherently unequal" Hernandez v. Texas: 347 U.S. 475 (1954) application of the Fourteenth Amendment to Mexican Americans: Bolling v. Sharpe: Racial Segregation: 347 U.S. 497 (1954) segregation in the District ...
The 70-year anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case also marks the first year without race-conscious admissions in universities.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Segregated facilities for blacks and whites are constitutional under the doctrine of separate but equal. As long as the separate facilities are equal in quality, then such separation is not unconstitutional. (De facto overruled by Brown v. Board of Education (1954)) Missouri ex rel. Gaines v.
By RYAN GORMAN Michael Brown's family has repeated calls for peace in the wake of a grand jury's decision to not indict the police officer responsible for his death. The teen's devastated parents ...
By JIM SUHR FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) - Hundreds converged on Ferguson on Saturday to march for Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a white police officer three weeks ...
Despite Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown as a judge did not invariably vote against the interests of minority litigants. For example, in Ward v. Race Horse, Brown was the sole dissenter when the Court held that tribal hunting rights granted under an 1869 treaty with the Bannock Indians must yield to a state law