The Library of Congress has opened an exhibition entitled 'With an Even Hand:' Brown v. Board at Fifty - On May 17, l954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark judicial case