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Keeping Our Promise: Brown, 60 Years Later
Sixty years ago this Saturday, the Supreme Court handed down their decision in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. This decision, which ruled state-sanctioned public school segregation unconstitutional, was a tremendous victory in the long-fought battle for civil rights in this country. The unanimous decision affirmed what civil rights leaders had always understood to be the "inherently unequal" state of segregated schools.