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in Philadelphia, the first academy for girls in America, women enjoyed filling their free time with activities such as music, reading, and education as families became wealthier
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in Massachusetts, first school in the U.S. for children with visual disabilities
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first woman to graduate from medical school, she later becomes a pioneer in the education of women in medicine.
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first institution anywhere in the world to provide higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent, distinguished alumni include Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall
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guarantees privileges of citizenship including due process and equal protection under the law including the right to vote for freed male slaves; becomes the basis for the rulings in Brown v. Board of Education and Pyler v. Doe as well as many other important court cases
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banning segregation in all public accommodations
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in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; the goal of assimilating Indian children into the mainstream culture; the schools leave a controversial legacy
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the U.S. Supreme Court rules by a 5-4 vote that a New Jersey law which allowed reimbursements of transportation costs to parents of children who rode public transportation to school, even if their children attended Catholic schools, did NOT violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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the Supreme Court rules that schools cannot allow "released time" during the school day which allows students to participate in religious education in their public school classrooms
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Federal troops enforce integration in Little Rock, Arkansas as the Little Rock 9 enroll at Central High School
