How were the Jim Crow laws destroyed?
State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of '64 and the Voting Rights Act of '65.
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About Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, declared state laws establishing segregated public schools unconstitutional. The decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. The decision opened integration and bolstered the civil rights movement.
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