PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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13th
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14th
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Detailed explanation-3: -By this definition, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment failed, because though African Americans were granted the legal rights to act as full citizens, they could not do so without fear for their lives and those of their family.