U.S.
Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision that racial segregation in
schools is unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education.
The case stemmed
from elementary student Linda Brown whose black school was miles further away
from her home that the superior white school in her neighborhood. The NAACP
took up Ms. Brown’s case with lawyer Thurgood Marshall (future Supreme Court
Justice) leading the case. This ruling overturned the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson
which established the “separate but equal” accommodation in railroad cars and
was used to justify segregation in all public facilities.
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