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Major Events
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Minersville School District v. Gobitis
Religious rights of public school students under the First Amendment. Court ruled schools could compel students to salute the American Flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
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D. Day
155,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler dies with his wife in a bunker. -
WWII Ends
Nazi Germany Surrenders. -
Little Boy
Hiroshima bombed with atomic bomb “Little Boy.” -
Fat Man
Second atomic bomb “Fat Man” lands on Nagasaki. -
Everson v. Board of Education 330 U.S. 1
Applied the Establishment Clause in the country’s Bill of Rights to State Law. -
Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla. 332 U.S. 631
Oklahoma must provide instruction for Blacks equal to that of whites. -
McCollum v. Board of Education 333 U.S. 203
Related to the power of a state to use its tax-supported public school system in aid of religious instruction. -
Sweatt v. Painter 339 U.S. 629
Sweatt was refused admission into school because he was black. Separate law school was created. -
Mclaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents 339 U.S. 637
Required University of Oklahoma to adhere to the state law requiring African- Americans to be provided graduate or professional education on a segregated basis. -
War
Korean War begins. -
End of War
Korean War ends. -
Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. -
I wont move.
Rosa parks refuses to move to the back of the buss.