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Brown v. Board of Education decided (1954)

CTL-E-1540 · Event · other · 1950s

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U.S. Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954, holding segregated public schools unconstitutional; Thurgood Marshall was lead counsel for the plaintiffs.

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