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Civil Rights Timeline

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    A landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896.
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    Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall
    Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, and served for 24 years.