Students from across the country participate in a rally they call the March on Washington to Save Brown v. Board of Education -- the decision that banned school segregation more than half a century ago. (By Melina Mara -- The Washington Post)

Court Hears Cases on Schools and Race
Diversity Plans Challenged In Name of Equal Protection

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 5, 2006; Page A03

Supreme Court deliberations are private, but yesterday's oral arguments on whether it is constitutional to allow school systems to use race in making school assignments became as much a public ...   more »