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Massachusetts Bay Colony and schools
Massachusetts Bay Colony made that every town of 50 should have an elementary school and every town of 100 should have a Latin school so they could learn the basics of the Calvinist religion. If image doesn't load use this link shorturl.at/DPU37 -
Pennsylvania free education for poor
Free public education for poor children in Pennsylvania expects rich to pay for own kids. -
Massachusetts passes law that makes education free to pupils
Mass passes a law making all grades of open to the pupils free of charge. -
Massachusetts creates first reform school
Mass opens reform school where students who don't want to attend public are chosen to go. If image doesn't work go here shorturl.at/kQ246 -
Plessy V. Ferguson
"Seperate but equal" is allowed in Louisana and where segregation is noted as legal. States pass laws making segregation legal in schools. -
Public schooling rising in importance
31 states said students should attend public school ages 8-14. Under the development of compulsory school attendance philosophy and laws is where you'll find the state's decision https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1878/Compulsory-School-Attendance.html -
All students required to go to school
All states required children to at least attend and complete elementary school https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1878/Compulsory-School-Attendance.html -
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Lawsuits for educational equality for educators
Series of lawsuits brought to by the NAACP over the unequal pay Black and white educators in the south. With the pressure from
the North and the South it resulted in increased spending for Black schools in the South
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Brown V. Board of Ed
Brown V. Board of education Segregated schools are not equal, takes 45 years in order for segregated schools to stop -
Federal Court orders integration at Little Rock
Federal court orders the integration of Little Rock, 9 high schoolers sent to enroll in all while central high school. Stopped by National Guard, but Eisenhower sends in federal troops to escort the students and Eisenhower says he does this because he supports desegregation.
