The Road to Brown v. Board of Education
The legal fight to combat segregation in public education began long before Linda Brown was denied entrance to the elementary school closest to her neighborhood based on her race. Beginning in the 1930s, Charles Hamilton Houston and many of his Howard Law School students designed a legal strategy to methodically attack the legal underpinnings of segregated education beginning with universities and graduate schools. Each case built a new legal precedent that allowed this fight to extend to all of public education, which culminated in the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that ruled that segregation in public education violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
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