On the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board decision, AL.com's Education Lab examines the legacy of court-ordered desegregation -- and what opportunity gaps still remain in communities today.

Many of those who fought to integrate schools say the efforts that followed Brown v. Board may not have turned out as originally hoped, but they still eliminated many barriers facing black students.

Mary Brown, the first Black person elected to the Pinellas County school board, died March 29 in Pinellas Park. She was 89 years old. A daycare owner and child care director before her election ...

Some of the nation’s most prominent Black political leaders and advocates celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Friday by calling for more to be done to end present-day ...

Despite the promise of equal opportunity heralded by the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a new ...

As a Black Southerner and the son and grandson of Jim Crow survivors, my life exists in the shadow of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court decision that turns 70 years old on ...

Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision ... It ultimately led to thousands of Black teachers losing their jobs. Before Brown, Black children often were excluded from public schools or ...

particularly for Black and Latino students. "One of the reasons why is because courts were never really involved in the same way after Brown v. Board of Education, in requiring the state to ...

Black/White & Brown: Brown Versus the Board of Education of Topeka is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones ...

The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo ...