Brown v. Board of Education

Representing two same-sex couples who want to marry, Olson invoked groundbreaking Supreme Court civil rights decisions, such as Brown v. Board of Education, which forbade racial segregation in public schools, and Loving v. Virginia, which threw out that state's law against interracial marriage.

California court hears closing arguments in same-sex marriage case 2010

Representing two same-sex couples who want to marry, Olson invoked groundbreaking Supreme Court civil rights decisions, such as Brown v. Board of Education, which forbade racial segregation in public schools, and Loving v. Virginia, which threw out that state's law against interracial marriage.

California court hears closing arguments in same-sex marriage case 2010

In an ironic reversal, drawling southerners are trying to convince Yankees to be sensitive to the Jim Crow-shadowed past, while white school board members are giving the NAACP lessons on Brown v. Board of Education.

Lynn Parramore: Trading Places: A North/South Reversal on Civil Rights 2010

But by the next year, Mr. Kilpatrick redirected his sense of outrage and allied himself with the Byrd machine and its fight against Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case in which the U.S.

James J. Kilpatrick, 89, dies; conservative columnist formerly on '60 Minutes' 2010

In an ironic reversal, drawling southerners are trying to convince Yankees to be sensitive to the Jim Crow-shadowed past, while white school board members are giving the NAACP lessons on Brown v. Board of Education.

Lynn Parramore: Trading Places: A North/South Reversal on Civil Rights 2010

In an ironic reversal, drawling southerners are trying to convince Yankees to be sensitive to the Jim Crow-shadowed past, while white school board members are giving the NAACP lessons on Brown v. Board of Education.

Lynn Parramore: Trading Places: A North/South Reversal on Civil Rights 2010

As Governor he signed an executive order repealing school segregation in classrooms - a prelude to Brown v. Board of Education.

David Perez: Experience Is the Life of the Law - and Right Now We Need Harold Koh's Experience David Perez 2010

But by the next year, Mr. Kilpatrick redirected his sense of outrage and allied himself with the Byrd machine and its fight against Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case in which the U.S.

James J. Kilpatrick, 89, dies; conservative columnist formerly on '60 Minutes' 2010

Drawing on his experience as a trial lawyer in Jim Crow's Alabama, he would join the Court's unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing segregation, and write for the Court in Gomillion v. Lightfoot, requiring the South to grant African Americans the right to vote.

David Perez: Experience Is the Life of the Law - and Right Now We Need Harold Koh's Experience David Perez 2010

Seventeen states required racial segregation by law when the Court struck it down in Brown v. Board of Education.

Matt Coles: The San Francisco Marriage Case, Part Two: The Supreme Court 2010