PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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He won the court case Brown v. Board of Education which led to the desegregation of public schools.
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He introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1965 which increased equality in the American workplace.
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He pressured the Supreme Court to pass a voting rights bill that made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal.
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He overturned the court case Dred Scott v. Sandford which led to the end of slavery in the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Having won these cases, and thus, establishing precedents for chipping away Jim Crow laws in higher education, Marshall succeeded in having the Supreme Court declare segregated public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Topeka Brown case is important because it helped convince the Court that even when physical facilities and other “tangible” factors were equal, segregation still deprived minority children of equal educational opportunities.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The 1954 decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal.