(Source: US Department of Justice) Celebrating the 61st Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Courtesy of Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division This Sunday marked the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case establishing that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Some sixty one years after Brown, the Department of Justice still works to uphold the promise of equal educational opportunities, including through its remaining desegregation cases. Although these cases originated decades ago, the educational opportunities at stake are no less important today than at the time of...
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