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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: The case of the century
On May 17th, 1954, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of public schools on the basis of race denied black children equal opportunity to education. Produced by the Kansas Bar Association, this 70-minute video features a reenactment of the 1952 and 1953 oral arguments presented to the United States Supreme Court in the landmark school segregation case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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