The significance of these cases stems from their challenge to the traditional "separate but equal" standard in civil rights questions. For over half a century, the Court has held that States ...
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In 1896, after years of trials appeals, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was fair, and was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment requiring equal protection to all.
White people believed that the Jim Crow laws made races ‘separate but equal’. However, this was disputed by most black people. They agreed that the laws kept the races apart but that ...
Sidney Poitier portrays Thurgood Marshall in an Emmy-winning chronicle of his experiences as NAACP chief counsel, struggling for public-school desegregation in the 1950s. Burt Lancaster.
Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme Court's landmark decision abolishing "separate but equal" schools in public education. School Integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C. Photo by ...