The U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education on May 17, 1954. The landmark decision said that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal. Attorney Thurgood Marshall worked on the Brown case with a team of attorneys. Marshall would later become the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Bishop Minerva Carcaño, with faith leaders from Arizona, met with both Arizona senator John McCain and white house officials to explain how Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law makes comprehensive immigration reform more urgent than ever.