| The first African American Supreme Court
Justice, he successfully argued for Brown
in the famous 1954 case against the Topeka,
KS Board of Education. |
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| In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that
statements of policy were protected under
the First Amendment and that only statements
leading to dangerous actions could be prohibited. |
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| This Arkansas Governor called out the National
Guard in 1957 to prevent black children from
attending Little Rock's Central High School. |
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| The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he
was appointed by President Eisenhower and
wrote the landmark decision in Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS. |
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| He founded the "Beats", a literary
group that rejected the materialism of the
1950s. |
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| He built thousands of reasonably priced homes
on small plots of land in Long Island, NY,
which served as a model for the post-World
War II suburbs. |
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| This African American challenged a city ordinance
in 1955 by refusing to give up a bus seat
to a white person. |
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| This Supreme Court decision declared Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional. |
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