The Brown v. Board of Education ruling issued by the Supreme Court on May 31st, 1955, which deemed "separate but equal" schools unconstitutional. This reversed the 1897 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling which had enshrined racial segregation in American…
Lawyer Thurgood Marshall in 1957. In 1955 Marshall argued against segregated schooling in theBrown v. Boardof Educationtrial, with the Court ruling unanimously in his favor. In 1967, Marshall was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon…