National Park Service Adds Historic School Segregation Sites

A 1951 photograph of Miss West's English 9 Class at R. R. Moton High School. It was used as Defendant's Exhibit No. 60, in the civil rights case Dorothy E. Davis et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, to show a comparison of conditions between black and white schools. This was one of five cases that were decided in Brown Vs. Board of Education. National Archives

The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, is expanding to sites in four other states and getting a new designation, according to an announcement on May 13 by the National Park Service (NPS).

Brown v. Board of Education was the 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation of public schools is an unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment. The single name represents five cases that were heard as one, that had been filed in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Virginia, South Carolina, and Kansas.