Legal+Document+from+Brown+Vs.+Board+of+Education

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=I. Artifact Name = Brown v. Board of Education

=II. Description of the Artifact and It's Significance = On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case //Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas//. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier in [|//Plessy v. Ferguson//] and served as a catalyst for the expanding civil rights movement during the decade of the 1950s.

=III. Date and Place = Enter your data and location below. Also, enter your information on this Timeline! May 17, 1954 Topeka, Kansas

=IV. Related Multimedia Found on the Internet = //(Include at least two links for your multimedia. Explain what each link is and how it relates to the artifact)// Link one provides a summary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. []

Link shows a video of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. [] =V. Curators (First Name, Last Initial) = =Joanne Jones, Natasha Norman, and Karen Hinton =