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… rights legislation—closed one door on the tragic practice of legal segregation in our nation’s history and opened another to realizing, at long last, the promise of equal protection under the law. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in … the decision had a profound impact on American society, 50 years later the promise of Brown v. Board of Education has yet to be truly fulfilled. As a major study by the Harvard Civil Rights Project recently showed, our nation’s schools are … at closing the achievement gap. We must do more than merely commemorate Brown a half century after its passage; we must work with urgency to achieve its promise and its purposes for today’s students and for future generations of students. This …