17 mai 1954 - Brown V Board of Education

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-This landmark Supreme Court Case overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson case and declared that "separate was inherently unequal," thereby making legal segregation of public schools unconstitutional
-Oliver Brown, Mrs. Richard Lawton, Mrs. Sadie
Emmanuel, et al. (appellant)
-Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al. (appellee)
-Argued 0n Dec 9-11, 1952
-Reargued Dec 7-9, 1953
-Decided May 17, 1954
-(Cause) in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, and Washington D.C., each school had denied admittance to African American students to certain schools.
-(effect) First big step for African Americans towards equality, made huge strides.