November 24, 2024
Brown v. Board of Education
Landmark decision Brown v. Board, where the court declared that, “…in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place,” overturning Plessy v. Ferguson and theoretically making school segregation illegal.
As attorneys for the NAACP, Spottswood W. Robinson III (far left) and Oliver Hill (far right) represented parents and students in cases throughout Virginia. In 1953, they defended parents from West Point, Virginia, who refused to send their children to a segregated school twenty miles away.
Image source: Library of Virginia
