Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in the case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was filled with ironies...
...ruling ushered in a generation of anguished testing and advances of the idea of equality. Yet in Topeka, Kans., in 1954, the parents of Linda Brown, an eleven-year-old black girl, had mere ly sought the right for her to attend a segregated white school in her own neighborhood, and the court upheld them. Since Brown, the complexities of desegregation have been transformed into the volatile issue of metropolitan busing. Opponents argue - on behalf of the neighborhood school - that children should not be forced to attend schools miles from their homes merely to achieve racial balance. In the same...
...symposium on issues relating to school desegregation will be held at the Law School tomorrow and Thursday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas...
...Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown against Board of Education of Topeka held that a state violates the clause if it denies any child admission to any of its public schools on account of the child's race. Over the past decade, the federal courts and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have turned their backs on the mandate of the 1954 Supreme Court decision--that race be eliminated as a determinant in assigning children to public schools...
...this case is to be presented before the Supreme Court. Twenty years after the court (in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka) declared segregation by law to be unconstitutional, the court is again faced with a decision that touches at the foundations of American society. Is a desegregated system within the city limits enough or must the entire metropolitan area be included if otherwise the city proper would remain identifiably black...