THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Brown v. Topeka Board of Edu.
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Munn v. Illinois
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955) The case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Board of Education (of Topeka), (1954) U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment says that no state may deny equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction.
Detailed explanation-4: -In each of the cases, African American students had been denied admittance to certain public schools based on laws allowing public education to be segregated by race. They argued that such segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.