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Baby Boom
Massachusetts governor Paul A. Dever ignored federal mandates and allocated money for religious school transportation
There were shortages of teachers, classrooms, and supplies due to about a 50% increase of students due to baby boomers entering school in the 1950s -
Mclaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents 1950
This was a United States Supreme Court case that reversed a lower court decision upholding the efforts of the University of Oklahoma to adhere to the state law requiring African-Americans to be provided graduate or professional education on a segregated basis. -
Heman Marion Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt was denied acceptance to UT lawschool. His case was took up by the NAACP and went to the Supreme Court and won in June 1950. The court said that the new school made for blacks was “not substantially equal to those avaliable to white students”. This presedence was used in many othe coust cases -
Videotapes
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Brown vs. Board Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Dr.King gave a speach
Dr. King spoke to nearly 5,000 people at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery on December 5, 1955, just four days after Mrs. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery city bus. That arrest led to the first major civil rights campaign in the Deep South in half a century. -
"Give Us the Ballot"
Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for equality for African Americans. In 1957. MLK Jr. formed a Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and gave a speach in D.C. -
Photocopier
This allowed mass production of material that was used in schools