On June 28, three years after the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court subverted Brown's meaning to block public school integration plans. As a result, boards of education across the country, which have used racial criteria to reduce segregation, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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