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Article: Brown vs. Board of Education decision: 40 years later.
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- June 6, 1994
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"We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of |separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
So said Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for all members of the U.S. Supreme Court on May 17, 1954 when issuing the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision which outlawed segregation in America's public schools.
The order to desegregate public schools "with all deliberate speed," much like the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act that followed, was a pivotal mandate--not just for Blacks but for all Americans.
"It brought to the nation's attention between Blacks and ...