Findings and purposes

The Congress finds as follows: A 1999 historic resources study examined the 5 cases included in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and found that each case— With respect to the case of Briggs v. Elliott— Summerton High School in Summerton, South Carolina, the all-White school that refused to admit the plaintiffs in the case— Robert Russa Moton High School, the all-Black school in Farmville, Virginia, which was the location of a student-led strike leading to Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County— With respect to the case of Belton v. Gebhart— Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware, an all-Black school to which the plaintiffs in the case were forced to travel— the Hockessin School #107C (Hockessin Colored School)— John Philip Sousa Junior High School in the District of Columbia, the all-White school that refused to admit plaintiffs in Bolling v. Sharpe— The purposes of this subchapter are—