Term: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Definition:
a Supreme Court decision issued on May 17, 1954, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." It outlawed segregation of schools by race anywhere in the U.S., and paved the way for the school desegregation struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. View more information about its effects in Wisconsin, especially on the integration of Milwaukee public schools, elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org
[Source: The Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research (http://brownvboard.org/index.htm)]
