may 1, 1954 - Brown v Board of Ed

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[Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka]
[what] NAACP lawyers, led by Thurgood Marshall, argued segregation of black students in public schools violated 14th amendment guarantee of ‘equal protection of the laws’
[decision] Unanimous supreme court decision to overturn 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision; Chief Justice Earl Warren said ‘separate facilities are inherently unequal’, and school segregation should end w ‘all deliberate speed’ | EFFECT: despite decision, 10 years after it, less than 2% of blacks in the south attended desgregated schools

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