Brown v. Board of Education (jan 1, 1951 – jan 1, 1969)

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"Linda Brown was a black child that attempted to enroll in a white public school but was denied ... 'Brownwasmerged with four similar cases into a class action. The class action was supported by the NAACP and coordinated by Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court. The five cases squarely challenged the separate-but-equal doctrine. By all tangible measures (standards for teacher licensing, teacher-pupil ratios, library facilities), the two school systems in each case—one white, the other black—were equal. The issue was the legal separation of the races.' ... 'By 1969, a unanimous Supreme Court ordered that the operation of segregated school systems must stop 'at once.'"

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