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A decision of the Supreme Court where the Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality
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A year after Brown v board of education court ordered schools to integrate faster.
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14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman in a grocery store. He became an icon for the civil rights movement because of the horrific actions of his attackers.
