17 Mai 1954 Jahr - Brown v Board of Education

Beschreibung:

Summary: separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
People involved: Brown (representing his daughter and a dozen other black students) and the Board of Education of the City of Topeka, Kansas
Where: Kansas, then the SC
Cause: Russia was judging America for claiming to be the best but treating its minority citizens like trash; it was the Cold War, so America tried to protect its image.
Effect: Overturned Plessy v Ferguson