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Civil Rights Act of 1866
Makes discrimination against individuals on the basis of color, race, or previous slave status. Was the birth of indiscriminate education for all citizens. -
Civil Rights Act of 1871
The Act that suspended the writ of habeau corpus in order to combat the KKK. Enforced open education to all peoples -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ordering that it was legal to seperate individuals into seperate but equal facilities. -
Brown v Board
Overturns Plessy v Ferguson, saying that seperate was not equal. This would be the backboard to many special education cases about spereate and equal treatment -
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974
The prohibition of discrimination within any entity recieving federal fundinging. Disabled students who need help or modification are given IEPs. Start of changing the learning the environment for an equitable education