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Brown v. Board of Education
Topeka, Kansas: Oliver Brown sued to force the local school district to allow his daughter to attend a nearby white school -
Brown v Board of ed cont.
Kanses courts had rejected his suit. Availability of a school for African Americans fulfilled the supreme courts "seperate but equal" ruling.
NAACP appealed.
Thurgood Marshell argued the concept of seperate but equal was self contridictory -
Brown V. Board of Ed
Divided Court was unable to make a decision. -
Brown V Board of Ed
Earl Warren sat as Cheif Justice on the Supreme Court. Stated that seperate education facilities are unequal. -
Brown v Board of Ed
Court addressed how to implement the ruling and gave primary responsibilty to local school boards. -
Little Rock Arkansas
Central Highschool in Little Rock Arkansas was schedulded to integrate. They remained segregated. -
Little Rock Arkansas
Nine african American students walked in Central high unnoticed. Integratiion lasted 3 hours before riots broke out. -
The new school year
High schools began to close rather than integrate for the 1957-1958 school year. -
schools opening
schools began to reopen and integration slowly spread to lower grades -
Cooper v Aaron
the supreme court ruled that an African American has to right to attend school could not be "nullified openly" or by evasive schemes for segregation.