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This page might be a little redundant, but I really hate segregation
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*Beginning in the 1930s, the NAACP--under the leadership of African-American attorney Charles Hamilton Houston-- began its assault on the "separate but equal" doctrine announced in Plessy.  Houston chose to concentrate his efforts on segregation in public education, where he thought the adverse effects of the enforced racial separation could be most easily demonstrated. [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sepbutequal.htm]
 
*Beginning in the 1930s, the NAACP--under the leadership of African-American attorney Charles Hamilton Houston-- began its assault on the "separate but equal" doctrine announced in Plessy.  Houston chose to concentrate his efforts on segregation in public education, where he thought the adverse effects of the enforced racial separation could be most easily demonstrated. [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sepbutequal.htm]
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The legal doctrine was overturned in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' (1954).
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:In this milestone decision the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. [http://www.historicaldocuments.com/BrownvBoardofEducation.htm]
    
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sepbutequal.htm Separate But Equal?: The Road to ''Brown'']
 
*[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sepbutequal.htm Separate But Equal?: The Road to ''Brown'']
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