This Promise of Change | African American | United States | The Crisis Magazine

Before the Brown decision, Black high school students in Clinton, Tenn., traveled more than 20 miles each way to Knoxville, to attend an all-Black high school because the only high school in Clinton, only five minutes away, was for White students. But Brown changed that.

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This Promise of Change | African American | United States | The Crisis Magazine

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education decision that separate but equal schools were unconstitutional. The ruling ch