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Facts

Date May 17, 1954
Location United States
Context American civil rights movement • McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

Did You Know?

  • Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, a supporter of the Plessy verdict, died in September 1953, just before the case was heard.
  • The 'Runyon v McCrary' verdict of 1976 declared that private, nonsectarian schools may also not deny admission based on race.
  • Six years after Brown v. Board, Southern schools still had not begun desegregation. Ten years after, still less than 2% of Southern African-American children attended desegregated schools.

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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 1954
Where the Greensboro sit-in happened
sit-in movement
1960 - 1961
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides
May 4, 1961 - September 1961
March on Washington
March on Washington
August 28, 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act
1964
police in Watts, 1966
Watts Riots of 1965
August 11, 1965 - August 16, 1965
Mildred and Richard Loving
Loving v. Virginia
June 12, 1967
Poor People's Campaign
Poor People’s Campaign
June 19, 1968

Key People

Earl Warren
Earl Warren
chief justice of United States
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
United States jurist
Oliver Hill
Oliver Hill
American lawyer

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