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MA passes law requiring parents to educate their children
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Old Deluder Satan Act
Law in MA that required every town of at least 50 familes to have a school master to teach students to read the Bible. -
John Locke publishes "Some Thoughts Concerning Education"
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Caul Caffe petitions for equalrights in CT
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Frederick Douglass
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First public HS opens in Boston
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Liberia, Africa settled by American-Africans
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MA passes law requireing public education in towns with over 300 families
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David Walker writes "Appeal to the Colored Citizens
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Horace Mann appointed to the MA Board of Education
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Boston schools become integrated
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Civil War 1861-1865
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Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln
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13th Amendment outlawing slavery
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Reconstruction
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14th Amendment giving citizenship to former slaves
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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15th Amendment--Right to vote no abridged by race, color, etc.
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Plessy V. Ferguson decision establishes "Separate but Equal"
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World War I
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NAACP launches full-scale campaign against legal injustices
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Missouri v. Jenkins
On June 12, 1995 the Court, in a 5-4 decision, overturned a District Court ruling that required the state of Missouri to correct de facto racial inequality in schools by funding salary increases and remedial education programs.