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-This was a huge decision by the Supreme Court which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as those facilities were equal
-This was also known as "separate but equal" -
-This congress was founded on the University of Chicago campus grounds
-The main purposes of the program included social equality, gender equality, and racial equality
-CORE was ultimately an African American civil rights movement -
-Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play professional baseball
-Throughout his career, he won many awards and great honors including Rookie of the Year and MVP
-Robinson agreed with the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers to play in the major leagues -
-This was a political party that was formed and founded by a man named Strom Thurmond
-It was a State's Right Democratic Party that was all for segregation
-This spread mainly throughout the South due to the recent regional split in opposition to the Democratic Party -
-This was issues by Harry Truman
-It abolished discrimination based on race, gender, and religion in the United States Armed Forces which led to the end of segregation leading towards the Korean War. -
-President Truman took a large political risk by presenting a civil rights speech to a joint session of the congress
-President Truman also signed an executive order which ended segregation of the military and allowed an opportunity for all Armed Forces. -
- This was a case that changed the "separate but equal" part of racial segregation
- Supreme Court also reversed the lesser court's decision by mentioning that the separate school failed to qualify
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- This was a major decision in the U.S Supreme Court
- It ruled that U.S state laws established racial segregation in public schools as unconstitutional even if these schools were equal in quality
