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Article: Editorials.(News)(Editorial)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2004
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The Brown ruling, 50 years later
Fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ruling. And while Brown v. Topeka Board of Education did not ultimately lead to the complete educational equality hoped for, it nonetheless stands as one of the most important of all court rulings.
A few steps toward desegregation already had been achieved by 1951, when a small group of black parents from Topeka, Kan., went to court to seek admission of their children into an all-white school. Jackie Robinson had joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948. President Harry Truman had desegregated the armed forces a year later. But legally ...