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• Key development of the 1950's

  Struggle of African Americans for equal rights
• The Truman years


  1945-1953
• Jackie Robinson


  First black baseball player to cross the "color line"
• Truman signed an executive order to desegregate armed forces
• Sweatt vs Painter (1950)

  Separate education between blacks and whites are not equal. This case challenges Plessy Vs Ferguson.
• Brown Vs Board of Education


  Segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The lawyer for the NAACP was Thurgood Marshall. He later became the 1st black Supreme Court judge. This case also overruled Plessy Vs Ferguson.