Education
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
"Discrimination in education is symbolic of all the more drastic discrimination in which negros suffer. In the American life, the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment furnishes the key to ending separate schools."
-- Charles Hamilton Houston
On October 26, 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-525, establishing Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws."
The site is located at Monroe Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas. Monroe was the segregated school attended by the lead plaintiff's daughter, Linda Brown, when Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was initially filed in 1951.
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