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After the United States Supreme Court's May 17, 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education
prohibiting public school segregation, a North Carolina
Governor's Special Advisory Committee on Education
was established. It was chaired by North Carolina House Speaker Thomas J. Pearsall and was directed to
advise the Governor, the General Assembly, the State Board of Education and local school boards
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus,
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On February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch
counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a
legendary moment, but it was. The four people were
African American, and they sat where African
Americans weren’t allowed to sit. They did this to
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In 1961, the Freedom Riders, a brave group of men and women, black and white, young and old, boarded buses, trains and planes headed for the deep South to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in all interstate public facilities.
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Also know as Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. The case was dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.
