(Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images) By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated May 17, 2024
Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional.
In the landmark ruling, the high court overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson precedent, holding that “in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities
