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Category: Supreme Court Cases
Level: Grade 8
Author: mrsmaroudas
Created: 11 years ago

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Grade 8 Supreme Court Cases

The suit was filed on behalf of a third grade student who had to walk a mile to a blacks-only school when a whites-only school was much closer. The case was argued by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were not constitutional.