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Plessy VS Ferguson
Case happened after Homer Plessy on a train in a all white train car and was asked to go to the car for African Americans. After refusing to get out he was arrested. The oral argument happened on April 13th, 1896, but final decisions were final on May 18th, 1896.
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Sweatt vs Painter
Herman M. Sweatt, a colored mail man, applied for the University of Texas Law School. By law, it was only allowed to white people. Sweatt's application was rejected of course and he attempted to go to a court to argue his case. The university soon had a separate but equal places where blacks could go to law school. The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required Sweatt's admission to the University of Texas Law School.
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Brown VS Board of Education
"Famous lawsuit by which all five cases before the Supreme Court would become known, Brown v. Board of Education."
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Little Rock - Central High School
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March on Washington
March for jobs and freedom. Put on by religious and civil rights groups to show people the social and political challenges the people are facing. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech , " I Have A Dream" to get racial justice and equality.
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24th Amendment
