History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1851 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Brown v. Board of Education
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The idea
On May seventeenth, nineteen fifty-four, Chief Justice Earl Warren announced a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education: separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
In practice
Thurgood Marshall arguing that segregated schools made African American children feel inferior, even where the buildings were equal.
Where people slip
Unit five taught Plessy v. Ferguson; Brown made its separate but equal rule unconstitutional in public education.
Your place on the trail
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