may 17, 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
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The Supreme Court Case that decided that state laws enforcing racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. In this case, the parents of several African American students, along with the help of the NAACP, sued the school officials of the Little Rock Arkansas school. The case originated out of the Little Rock area. The primary cause was segregation in public schools and the primary effect was the slow desegregation of public schools.
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