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  • Plessy v. Ferguson
    a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
  • Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
    unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Brown claimed t...
  • Little Rock Nine
    In September 1957 the school board in Little rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High a school with 2...
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