* 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

Along with Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy ( 1944 ), The Race Question influenced the 1954 U. S. Supreme Court desegregation decision in " Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ".

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in 1954 outlawed segregation in public schools.

On May 17, 1954, the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its decision regarding the case called Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in which the plaintiffs charged that the education of black children in separate public schools from their white counterparts was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ( 1954 ) did not overturn Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ).

When the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 ( 1954 ), Eastland, like most Southern Democrats, denounced it.

* Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 ) ( full text with hyperlinks to cited material )

In 1972, the Little Rock School District, slow to comply to the 1954 US Supreme Court case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, was forcibly ordered by federal courts to immediately desegregate the school district.

The “ separate but equal ” doctrine would characterize American society until the doctrine was ultimately overturned during the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

During the mid-20th century, partly as a result of cases such as Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45 ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649 ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U. S. 1 ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ); McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U. S. 637 ( 1950 ); NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U. S. 449 ( 1958 ); Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U. S. 454 ( 1960 ) and probably the most famous, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 ), the tide against segregation began to turn.

The U. S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ); Powell v. Alabama ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents ( 1950 ) led to a shift in tactics, and from 1955 to 1965, " direct action " was the strategy — primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and social movements.

In many parts of the United States, after the 1954 decision in the landmark court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that demanded US schools desegregate " with all deliberate speed ", local families organized a wave of private " Christian academies ".

* Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 )-Brown v. Board of Education was recognized as a critical case even before it reached the Supreme Court.

– 1961 ) was the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 U. S. Supreme Court case Oliver L. Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, more famously known by its shorter title Brown v. Board of Education.

In 1954, not long after the couple moved from Topeka, Kansas to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Margaret took a position as a psychoanalyst, Gibson published a novel, The Cobweb, set in a psychiatric hospital resembling the Menninger Clinic ; in 1955, the novel was adapted as a movie by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In 1954, only days before the U. S. Supreme Court handed down Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, he appeared on an RCNL-sponsored roundtable, along with Thurgood Marshall, and other black Southern attorneys to formulate possible litigation strategies.

He studies several landmark cases that have been handed down from the Court, such as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ) and Roe v. Wade ( 1973 ), and asserts that in each examined situation, the Court was largely unable to attain any tangible, empirically-measurable change.

The U. S. Supreme Court issued its Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision ( 347 U. S. 483 ) on May 17, 1954.

Born in Kansas City, Kansas, Quade attended Perry Rural High School in Perry, Kansas before transferring to Highland Park High School in Topeka on September 7, 1954.

* 1954 – Chester Wilmot, American war correspondent ( b. 1911 )

* Ralph Izzard, The Abominable Snowman Adventure, this is the detailed account by the Daily Mail correspondent on the 1954 expedition to find the " Snowman ", Hodder and Staoughton, 1955.

* 1954: Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, " for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent.

After serving from 1952 to 1954, he joined the Associated Press ( AP ) and became a political correspondent in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Times newspaper correspondent on 28th June 1954 drew a similar conclusion ; " Never in my life have I seen such cruel tackling, the cutting down of opponents as if with a scythe, followed by threatening attitudes and sly jabs when officialdom was engaged elsewhere.

Stone Stockton Phillips ( born December 2, 1954 ) is an American television reporter and correspondent.

He retired from the News Chronicle in 1954 and moved to Singapore, where he was both political commentator for the Straits Times and South East Asia correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

* 1954 Pulitzer Prize – Alvin Scott McCoy's local reporting coverage that led to the resignation of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman

* 1954: Alvin Scott McCoy, The Kansas City Star, " for a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman.

Nicolas Collins ( born March 26, 1954 in New York City ) is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier.

William Alvin " Bill " Moody ( born April 10, 1954 ), better known by his ring names Paul Bearer and Percival Pringle III, is a professional wrestling manager and former wrestler best known for his time in World Class Championship Wrestling ( WCCW ) and World Wrestling Federation ( WWF — later WWE ).

* William Alvin Moody ( b. 1954 ), professional wrestling manager also known by his ring name " Paul Bearer "

* Alvin Rogness 1954 – 1974

In addition, in 1954 Mitchell performed in the musical House of Flowers, alongside Geoffrey Holder, Alvin Ailey and Pearl Bailey.

McCoy, was appointed commander of the 321st Bombardment Wing on 24 May 1954, having earned the unofficial distinction of being the " dean " of the Strategic Air Command ’ s B-47 " Stratojet " aircraft commanders.

On the morning of November 22, 1954, McCoy convinced another inmate, 17-year-old juvenile delinquent Lewis Cagle, Jr., to join him in attacking Remington as he slept.

Glen McCoy ( born 10 April 1954 ) is a writer, speaker and business coach.

Kevin C. McCoy ( born 1954 ) is an American Roman Catholic priest.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.

However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo, but was banned by French censors for its criticism of French colonialism.

In 1954 the play won the Prix Italia for literary or dramatic programmes.

Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 ( over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net ) and 1955 ( also over Montreal in the full seven games ).

The nexus of Communist Party of Pakistan | Communist Party, Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal | Marxist-Leninist and Awami League won the 1954 elections for East Pakistan.

He won directing Emmys for his work on the original 1954 CBS teleplay, Twelve Angry Men.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

Three of Gershwin's songs (" They Can't Take That Away From Me " ( 1937 ), " Long Ago and Far Away " ( 1944 ) and " The Man That Got Away " ( 1954 )) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, though none won.

He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 — the first black player so honored.

One of Anderson's early short films, Thursday's Children ( 1954 ), concerning the education of deaf children, made in collaboration with Guy Brenton, a friend from his Oxford days, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1954.

Renato Castellani won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his 1954 film of Romeo and Juliet.

The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, once in 1954 and again in 1981.

Founded in 1873, the Club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) between 1898 and 1924, and one premiership in 1954 since joining the then-Victorian Football League ( VFL ), the predecessor to the AFL, in 1925.

They finally won the first semi against Essendon, and the following year took out their only premiership so far, beating Geelong and then Melbourne in the 1954 VFL Grand Final.

* 1954 World Cup hosted by Switzerland, won by West Germany

Madrid won the first division for the first time as Real Madrid in 1954 and retained its title in 1955.

Although Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954 ( Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, and The Country Girl ), she and Garland both received Golden Globe Awards for their respective performances.