Was the James Meredith case decided in the supreme court?
James Meredith attended Jackson State University for two years, then applied to the University of Mississippi which, under the state's legally imposed racial segregation, had traditionally accepted only white (European-American) students. In Brown v. Board of Education (1955),the US Supreme Court ruled that publicly supported schools had to be desegregated. ChaCha!
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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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