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Created by kaylee.andrews
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Brown vs topeka board of education
- 1896 the US Supreme
court had decided that
segregated schools were
legal so long as they were
equal.
- in most cases
they were not
equal, schools for
whites were much
better funded.
- 1954 twenty
states had
segregated
schools
- The NAACP
challenged this
inequality and
chose to base its
case on the
situation in Topeka,
Kansas
- In May 1954 the
supreme court
declared that
segregated
schools were
illegal .
- in 1955 the supreme
court ruled that all
states had to carry
out the policy of
desegregating their
schools
- Many
southern
states
objected
and either
did nothing
or moved
very slowly.
- Many
southern
states
objected
and either
did nothing
or moved
very slowly.
- Very little had happened
by the end of 1956.
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