Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on the steps of the Supreme Court. Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court's ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that ...

TOPEKA, Kansas -- Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Her father, Oliver ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

It's one of the most painful periods of America's history. It was just over 70 years ago, on May 17th, 1954, The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling that would change our educational ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - When we talk about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., we also can’t ignore how Northeast Kansas, and Topeka in particular, play a large role in the overall civil rights ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The collective memory of school desegregation is of anger and division, like in this photo of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford ...

Opponents of desegregation used legal maneuvers, school closures, intimidation, and violence to maintain racially segregated schools. The "Southern Manifesto," signed by many Southern members of ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. As the Supreme Court heard arguments in Brown vs. Board of Education 50 years ago, one of the major questions was whether segregation in schools actually harmed black children.