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Religious rights of public school students under the First Amendment. Court ruled schools could compel students to salute the American Flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
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155,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy.
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Adolf Hitler dies with his wife in a bunker.
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Nazi Germany Surrenders.
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Hiroshima bombed with atomic bomb “Little Boy.”
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Second atomic bomb “Fat Man” lands on Nagasaki.
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Applied the Establishment Clause in the country’s Bill of Rights to State Law.
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Oklahoma must provide instruction for Blacks equal to that of whites.
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Related to the power of a state to use its tax-supported public school system in aid of religious instruction.
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Sweatt was refused admission into school because he was black. Separate law school was created.
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Required University of Oklahoma to adhere to the state law requiring African- Americans to be provided graduate or professional education on a segregated basis.
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Korean War begins.
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Korean War ends.
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Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Rosa parks refuses to move to the back of the buss.