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 ...

Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on the steps of the Supreme Court. Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court's ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that ...

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...

In the 1930s, a small, rural town had two schools: one for students who were white, one for children who were not. The school for white kids was a modern gem, with indoor plumbing and heat, spacious ...

Fighting for an education is in Jeffrey Benson’s lineage. Growing up in Topeka, Kansas in the 1960s, his family played key roles on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. His mother, aunt and ...

Facing racial barriers in 19th-century Iowa, Susan Clark Holley’s legal battle pioneered school desegregation, laying early groundwork for the monumental Brown v. Board of Education case. Untold is a ...