The New York Daily News – Staff Writer
“Obama called the Supreme Court’s school desegregation decision, issued on May 17, 1964, ‘the first major step in dismantling the “separate but equal” doctrine that justified Jim Crow.’ The President met with families of the plaintiffs and others at the White House, while First Lady Michelle Obama observed the anniversary in Topeka, Kansas, where the lawsuit that initiated the case originated..”(more)