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Brown v. Board of Education
The beginning of the Civil Rights Era. When the Supreme Court ruled that the separation of children in public schools due to their race was marked unconstitutional. The reason this case came to be was because when Linda Brown tried to enroll in an all white school in Topeka Kansas, the school rejected her from enrollment due to her being black (African American) In the end, this Supreme Court ruling ended the segregation of all schools in the U.S. while also overturning Plessy v. Ferguson. -
The Murder of Emmett Till