History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1850 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Case from Topeka
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The idea
In nineteen fifty Oliver Brown, a railroad worker, sued Topeka's Board of Education; his daughter crossed a switchyard to catch a bus to her segregated school.
In practice
An all-white elementary school seven blocks from her home, as Digital History records.
Where people slip
The NAACP, the Yawp says, chose cases from varied places to force a ruling on Plessy itself.
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