OPINION
The 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka affords us the opportunity to evaluate Delaware’s contribution to the case, as well as the decision’s impact on education here.
OPINION
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and White students were unconstitutional. This court decision effectively overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
OPINION
Remember the old Western movies in which there’s been a drought, people are starving, the cows are dying, and the crops won’t grow? The hero would come in and “seed” the clouds to make it rain. The movie may have ended well, but the reality was that those efforts were never very successful.
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