The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. In a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation to
Attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama, Governor of Alabama George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium while being confronted by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.
Vivian Malone Jones arrives to register for classes at the University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
Denny Chimes Tower
Brown v. Board of Education
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools violate
The members of the U.S. Supreme Court that on May 17, 1954, ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
Chief justice Earl Warren, the author of the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown
U.S. circuit judges (from left to right) Robert A. Katzmann, Damon J. Keith, and Sonia Sotomayor at a 2004 exhibit on the Fourteenth Amendment, Thurgood Marshall, and Brown v. Board of Education