Make no mistake, says O’Neill Professor of American Politics R. Shep Melnick: The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case paving the way for school ...

Two Wars | The Road to Integration tackles the topic of segregation and eventual integration of the United States Military. Since the earliest days of the Republic, African Americans have been ...

Before Brown, schools for black children were typically inferior to white schools and received far less funding from states. Boston Globe/Getty Images Desegregation bussing began several years after.