may 17, 1954 - Brown V. Board
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Linda Brown, an eight year old African American girl, had been denied permission to attend and elementary school five blocks away from her home in Topeka, Kansas. School officials reufused to register her at the nearby school, assigning her instead to a school for nonwhite students 21 blocks away from her home.
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