| May 17, 1954 - In the case of Brown v. Topeka Board
of Education, the US Supreme Court outlaws school segregation by race. |
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| Chief lawyer for the Brown family is NAACP
Legal Defense Fund attorney Thurgood Marshall. Students, however, continue
to attend either all-white or all-black schools. |
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Marshall speaks in Charlotte
with local NAACP leaders, the 1957 desegregation pioneers and their families. |
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A 6th grade class at the
all-black Torrence-Lytle High. |
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These African American
student bus drivers continue to drive black children past all-white high
schools to get to the county high school, Torrence-Lytle High. |
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