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instruction and interaction with other students, such as making a student sit in the clas isolated from the professor and other students.

1950 Sweatt v. Painter:
The Supreme Court rules that a separate law school hastily established for black stud having to be admitted to the previously all-white University of Texas School of Law co legal education "equal" to that available to white students. The Court orders the admis Marion Sweatt to the university of Texas Law School.

1954 Brown v. Board of Education:
Brown v. Board of Education:
The Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in public schools violaates the Fourtee which guarantees equal protection, and the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees due landmark case overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine that underpinned legal se

Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the five cases that comprised the Supreme Court case w Marshall, Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; Harol v. Elliott (South Carolina); Jack Greenberg, Louis L. Redding - Gebhart v. Belton (Del Carter, Charles S. Scott - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas); Oliver M Robinson III - Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (Virginia); Jam George E. C. Hayes - Bolling v. Sharpe (District of Columbia).

Attorneys of Counsel: Charles L. Black, Jr., Elwood H. Chisolm, William T. Coleman, Duncan, George E.C. Hayes, William R. Ming, Jr., Constance Baker Motley, David E Reeves, John Scott, and Jack B. Weinstein.

1955 Brownn v. Board of Education (II):
Court orders desegregation to proceed with "all deliberate speed."

1955 Lucy v. Adams:
A federal district court orders the admission of Autherine Luch to the University of Ala Supreme Court quickly affirms the decision.

1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white passenger and move to the arrest sparks the 382-day Montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights movement. LD counsel in defending Parks.

1957 President Eisenhower orders National Guard to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort to Central High School to enforce Brown.

1958 Cooper v. Aaron:
LDF wins a Supreme Court ruling that barred Arkansas Govenor Orval Faubus from desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School. The decision affirms Brown as the nationwide.

1959 Prince Edward County, Virginia closes all of its public schools rather than dese

1960 - 1965 The Civil Rights Movement:
With the sit-ins in North Carolina and Tennessee, the Freedom Rides to Alabama and voter registrations program in the Deep South, the Divil Rights Movement ribets the na legal arm of the civil rights movement and represents Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the S Leadershiip Conference, the Student Nonviolent Coordianting Committee and a host movement organizations.

1961 President John F. Kennedy appoints Thurgood Marshall to the United States C the Second Circuit. Jack Greenberg is selected as LDF's Director-Counsel.

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