Brown V. Board of Education
Rachel Robinson
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Brown v. Board of Education
The Civil Rights movement began in the 1950?s ? African Americans returning from war expected change, but they didn?t get it
After World War II, Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP?s chief council, focused on ending segregation in public schools
In 1954, the Supreme Court combined several different cases and subsequently issued a general ruling on segregation in public schools
One case focused on Linda Brown, an African American girl who was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas because of her race