…s you do [thank you!], to read. Here are the decisions in text form: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (and companion cases from Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia—the State cases); and Bolling v. Sharpe (from the District of Columbia—the Federal case). And click this link for relevant essays in the Jackson List archive, including: from 2010, “May 17, 1954”; from 2011, “Brown Day,” about Brown-winning attorney Thurgood Marshall; an…

…uring the dark middle of World War II. The Court held that a West Virginia board of education resolution requiring all public-school teachers and students to participate in a salute to the American flag and a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional. The case was brought on behalf of students who were Jehovah’s Witnesses. In deference to their belief that the Bible forbade them to bow down to graven images, two sisters refused t…