Today, integration is as much a part of America's public school system as Friday night football and complaints about cafeteria food. But America has not always opened the doors of its schools to all races. School integration occurred through the tireless efforts of countless men and women - some white, many black - who took their ideals and dreams about America and what it represents and worked to make them not only the law of the land, but acceptable to the vast majority of citizens. Here is the story of the relentless legal campaign launched by the NAACP civil rights organization and a persistent black lawyer named Thurgood Marshall, and how it changed history forever. ""Brown v. Board of Education"" was one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Chelsea House Publishers .

Tim McNeese is associate professor of history at York College in York, Nebraska.