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From the seminal work of Thurgood Marshall in Brown v. Board of Education to North Carolina’s landmark school busing decision in Swann v. Mecklenburg County Board of Education, the courts provided some measure of justice and redress in the continuing struggle for equality of opportunity in America. This installation will highlight Supreme Court action that buttressed the efforts of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and other organizations to support the people’s movement with a legal foundation. In the pitched battles against state’s rights proponents, civil rights activists found the results afforded through litigation to be a port in the face of violence and threat.


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