New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT May 17, 1954
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequa, and therefore unconstitutional.
ON THIS DATE 1792
The New York Stock Exchange had its beginnings as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.
1980
Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami’s Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating Black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.
1996
President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in.