Much of America's history has been made in its courts. In this republic of laws, judicial decisions have often become events of high moment-none more so than the two rulings in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that came down from the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954, and May 31, 1955. Few rulings have ever been so extravagantly praised and condemned. The history of Brown is a sequence of contingencies in that sense. It began with Oliver …showed first 75 words of 1155 total…

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