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aug 28, 1954 - Lynching of Emmet Till

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Chief Justice Earl Warren declared school segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, overturning the principle of “separate but equal” established by Plessy v. Ferguson.

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aug 28, 1954
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~ 71 years ago