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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
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...Kans. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was denied admission to her local...decision is commemorated by the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka......
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education
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...Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education, case decided in 1971 by the U.S. Supreme Court...Court held that the constitutional mandate (see Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.) to desegregate public schools......
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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......separate cars. Justice Henry Billings Brown wrote the majority opinion, stating...maintained until overruled in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. It had particular...relevance to education, with Justice Brown drawing parallels between race......
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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......United States. The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, an independent legal aid group, argues...ruling (1954) against segregated public education in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. case.See R. L. Jack......
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Jim Crow laws
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......Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate facilities...the state did not provide equal education for him. This was followed (1954) by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., declaring......
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Marshall, Thurgood
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......segregation, most notably in higher education. His presentation of the argument...landmark decision handed down in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954). His appointment...of the University of California v. Bakke (1978). As appointments......
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integration
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......facilities by the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), in which...to all public transportation and education facilities, even hospitals, churches...Court took a momentous step: In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. the court set......
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Clark, Kenneth Bancroft
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......to 1975, and to be a member of the New York State Board of Regents (1966–86). Clark was the author of...was cited in the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. An early leader in the civil......
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Warren, Earl
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......these were the unanimous 1954 decision, written by Warren, ending segregation in the nation's schools (see Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.); the one man, one vote rulings, which opened the way for legislative and Congressional......
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American Civil Liberties Union
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......the federal court test (1933) that ended the censorship of James Joyce's Ulysses, and the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) school desegregation case. In the late 1970s the ACLU defended the right of a neo-Nazi group to......