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Plessy vs, Ferguson
Title: Plessy vs, Ferguson
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 670 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Plessy vs, Ferguson
Plessy vs, Ferguson
The Significance of Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas has been credited with much significance. For some, it signaled the start of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, while for others, it represented the fall of segregation. The Brown decision was a landmark because it overturned the legal policies established by the Plessy …showed first 75 words of 670 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 670 total…a mob of screaming White people. They were screaming, “Lynch her, lynch her!” This short history raises some important questions for Americans still today. Our schools are still by and large not integrated—and probably not even desegregated. All over America people are calling for “quality” education and “neighborhood schools” rather than for forced integration. Today few people say that “separate but equal” is legally acceptable but de facto segregation has again become a reality
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