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Separate but Equal
Brainstorm…
Oliver Brown's daughter Linda, a third grader, had to walk six blocks to her school bus stop to ride to Monroe Elementary, her segregated black school one mile away...
…while Sumner Elementary, a white school, was seven blocks from her house.
Sumner
Monroe
The Supreme Court justices
heard about the Linda’s long walk
through dangerous railways.
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that “Separate but Equal” was
unconstitutional.
ALL public schools, including those in Virginia, were ordered to
DESEGREGATE.
Oliver W. HillBorn in Richmond, Hill was an African American lawyer who devoted his life to the fight for civil rights…
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He helped African American teachers earn equal paychecks as white teachers…
In 1954, Hill was part of the team that helped win the Brown vs. Board of Education decision at the Supreme Court!
President Bill Clinton awarded Hill the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999…
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Oliver Hill even lived to see his 100th birthday!
Hill and his family got death threats and had a cross burned on their front lawn, but he never backed down…
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Oliver W. Hill
Brown v. Board of Education
“Separate but Equal”
Integrate
Desegregate
A lawyer who helped winthe Brown v. BOE decision
Ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954
All public schools were ordered to…
Linda Brown’s dangerous walk to school brought about this court case