1. Civil Rights Legislation
... let racial discrimination continue. The next legislative step for ending discrimination was the Supreme Court Case, Brown v. Board of Education. This Supreme Court case said that the old policy of "separate but equal" public schools was illegal, as it never brought equality to the blacks. Although the courts called for integration of public schools, it took at least a decade for desegregation ... , and in many places it still hasn't. The next step along the legislative process towards equality occurred in 1956, when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation on local bus lines. This piece of...
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