On 17 May, racial segregation in public schools unanimously ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Citation:
Editors. "De-segregation of American Schools".
The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 February 2010
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