Cyrus Dugger

Civil Rights Litigation Clearing House Featured Case

A featured case from the relatively new tool called the Civil Rights Litigation Clearing House:

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Even though this is the most famous civil rights case ever, the relevant litigation documents are not easy to come by. The Supreme Court decisions, in 1954 (announcing the rule that “separate is inherently unequal”) and 1955 (announcing that remediation of Jim Crow school segregation could proceed “with all deliberate speed”), were obviously extraordinarily important, and are easily available. But the litigation in Topeka lasted from the filing of the first complaint in 1951 until final dismissal of the case in 1999. The Clearinghouse has copies of many of the crucial documents in the case.

Additional information is available in the case record.

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