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The U.S. Court of Appeals refuses to close the landmark desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, stating that the Supreme Court’s order had yet to be fully carried out.
1989 (Jun 5)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit refused to close the landmark desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. The court said that the school board of Topeka, Kansas, had still failed to fully carry out the Supreme Court's order of May 17, 1954. The appeals court ruling reversed a decision by a lower court that could have closed the case "that paved the way for nationwide school desegregation." In its decision, the appellate court concluded that “Topeka has not sufficiently countered the effects of both the momentum of its pre-Brown segregation and its subsequent acts in the 1960s." The Brown case had been reopened in 1979 when a group of parents, including one of the original plaintiffs, Linda Brown Buckner, complained that the school system was not desegregated.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.