In 1954, the Supreme Court decided that public schools could not separate students by race. The case was known as Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

1954年，美国最高法院判决公立学校不能以种族划分学生。这起案件被称之为布朗诉堪萨斯州托皮卡教育委员会案。

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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks who died last October at age 92 refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to whites. (For perspective, this was just over a year after Brown vs. the Board of Education.) 26-year-old Martin Luther King, a local pastor and member of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was drawn into the ensuing bus boycott and, as they say, the rest is history.

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Board of Education, having grown up in the Jim Crow South, but given that Brown vs.

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