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After Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, African American children were integrated into schools. This image of an integrated classroom at Barnard Elementary School in Washington D.C., was taken in 1955. The district’s board of education acted quickly to carry out the Supreme Court ruling.

segregation of students in local public schools. The cases involved the actions of school boards not only in Topeka, Kansas, but also in Delaware, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia. The cases involved different states but had one central issue in common: Is it constitutional to provide separate schools for children of different races (segre- gated schools)? In one of the cases—the original Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka —parents tried to enroll their children in schools in their neighborhood and were refused because their children were not white. Instead, they were told

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The SUPREME COURT

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