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1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
Event Date:
May 17, 1954
Event Type:
Modern Era Begins 1946-1959
Brown v. Board: May 17, 1954.
- 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. Photo of 6th grade class at all-black Torrence-Lytle High
- Marshall speaks in Charlotte with local NAACP leaders, the 1957 desegregation pioneers and their families.
- 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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