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Landmark ruling ends legal basis for segregation in schools
The 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools marks a watershed in the civil rights era. Leaders like Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr. steered a shift from challenging “separate but equal” to desegregation and mass action, while resistance and clashes followed in the South.
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NAACP
Editional Fund
Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court
America
Federal
State
Little Rock
Ark
University of Mississippi
Freedom Riders
Greensboro
N.C
South
Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee
SNICK
Ameri
Cans
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Montgomery
Ala
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SLICK
Frederick Douglass
Washington