Sentence examples for landmark segregation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama paid particular attention to education, declaring that more than 50 years after the Supreme Court's landmark segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, "the dream of a world-class education is still being deferred all across this country" as African-American students lag behind white classmates in reading and math.

In June 1950, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Sweatt v. Painter that a black applicant, Heman Marion Sweatt, must be admitted to the University of Texas School of Law, a decision that would pave the way for the landmark segregation case Brown v. Board of Education four years later.

Fred Gray Sr., the lawyer who defended Rosa Parks in her landmark bus segregation case and represented victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, has become the first black president of the Alabama Bar Association.

"A literary and political genealogy of the last half-century, Words of Witness explores black feminist autobiographical narratives in the context of activism and history since the landmark 1954 segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education.

Her father, Wayne, a sociology and education professor and, later, a dean at U.C.L.A., wrote an early study of high-school social systems and testified at a landmark school-segregation trial.

"Black Lives Matter" Makes It to the Venice Biennale.

The landmark decision that outlawed segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, was handed down 58 years ago this week.

When the students studied the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson segregation case, the class drove to where Homer Plessy was pulled off the whites-only section of a first-class train car in 1892.

The legal case against the Prince Edward County school board was ultimately bundled with four similar cases by NAACP attorneys in Brown vs. Board of Education et al., leading to the landmark Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools in 1954.

Chief Justice Warren, who led the court in forging its landmark 1954 ruling outlawing school segregation, "had the wisdom to recognize that segregation was wrong less because of precise sociological effects and more so because it was immoral and stigmatized blacks," Mr. Obama said.

Chief Justice John Roberts denounced the "sordid business" of "divvying us up by race" in a landmark 2007 school de-segregation majority ruling.