PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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A white principal turning away an African American student because there is a separate school in town for black children
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Forcing elderly African-American women to give up their seats on public buses
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The use of national guardsman to settle racial disputes
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Public officials using violence to break up peaceful protests
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the “separate but equal” principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although he raised a variety of legal issues on appeal, the most common one was that separate school systems for blacks and whites were inherently unequal, and thus violate the “equal protection clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.