3. The U.S. Supreme Court
ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
This decision declared separation
of races in U.S. public schools to be illegal. It created many new opportunities
for African Americans. Such new opportunities had been denied due to
limited educational opportunities.
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Robert Wedgeworth
is the University Librarian and Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. His choices for the most important events of the 1900's reflect a general approach. See why a British rock band and an American baseball player made it onto his list.
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