Celebration of the Supreme Court's Decision
On the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Nettie Hunt explains to her daughter, Nickie, the meaning of the high court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
The Supreme Court's decision on the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 marked a culmination in a plan the NAACP had put into action more than forty years earlier--the end to racial inequality. African American parents throughout the country like Mrs. Hunt, shown here, explained to their children why this was an important moment in history.
Online Resource: http://www.adl.org/education/brown_2004/lesson2.asp http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html
Credit: New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection/Library of Congress and Corbis-Bettmann