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Guaranteering Civil Rights
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As late as the 1950s, society in the Southern United States remained racially segregated by law. The segregation laws in these states were supported by an 1896 Supreme Court ruling. In the case of PLessy vs. Ferguson, the Court had ruled that "seperate but equal" public facilities for blacks an ....
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....te educational facilities are inherently unequal." Warren said that to separate grade school children "solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." School segregation laws, thereforem violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The "separate but eaual" doctorine of Plessy vs. Ferguson was overruled.
Opponents of segregation hailed the Court's deci.... |
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