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Declared the segregated facilities must be separate but equal, they were usually not.
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US Supreme Court ruled that segregation of America's schools was unconstitutional.
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Governor William B. Umstead created this consider the effects of the state’s obeying the Supreme Court ruling.
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Became governor of North Carolina. Opposed integration of schools.
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Established a freedom-of-choice system that allowed students to attend the school they wanted, and the voucher system allowed parents to use state money to support their child’s education in a private school.
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National Guard dispatched to protect African American teenagers in Arkansas.
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Thanks to the Pearsall Plan a private Indian school was established in Warren County but was closed once all Warren County schools were integrated.
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US Supreme Court ruled that the Charlotte School System desegregate.
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