Woodcut of early schoolroom, 1826-27

“We went every day about nine o’clock, with our books wrapped in paper to prevent the police or white
persons from seeing them...After school we left the same way we entered, one by one, when we would
go to the square about a block from school, and wait for each other. ”—Susie King, who attended a
secret school in Savannah, Georgia
The members of the United States
Supreme Court, 1896-97. Under Chief
Justice Melville Fuller, the Court
established the separate-but-equal rule.
 Linda Brown

"We conclude that the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate
educational facilities are inherently unequal." —Chief Justice Earl Warren
Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a
white elementary school in the deep South, 1960