Alan Bakke (defendant in Regents v. Bakke)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Gratz, left, and Grutter, plaintiffs in current cases against University of Michigan,Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger

Current Supreme Court Justices (will hear Gratz and Grutter cases)

Segregated rest rooms in the Jim Crow South, system reinforced by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964

Thurgood Marshall, argued on behalf of the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Political map of the United States

Segregated water coolers in the Jim Crow South