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Loving v. Virginia (1967)
The Court nullified the laws that prohibited interracial marriage.

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Korematsu vs. U.S. ruled that Japanese needed to be relocated and that it was just.

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The Little Rock Crisis was when 9 black students attempted to attend central high school after brown v board of education. White students and parents attempted to stop the black kids from going to the desegregated school. The police tried to stop the kids from coming and the national guard was called in to escort the school. This picture is from that day.

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Sweatt vs Painter court meeting

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Sweatt vs Painter
Successfully challenged the “seperate but equal” doctrine

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Dred Scott. Ruled that slaves can't sue as they are property.

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Plessey V Ferguson stated that it was constitutional to segregate.

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Brown v. The Board of Education (Dec. 1952- May 1954
The Court declared that separate public schools for black and white students is unconstitutional.

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“She, like most black patients, only went to Hopkins when she thought she had no choice.”

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Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.

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“This was the era of Jim Crow - when black people showed up at white-only hospitals, the staff was likely to send them away, even if it meant they might die in the parking lot.” Page 15

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Public buses were segregated with blacks having to give precedents to white individuals.

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White vs. Colored water fountains

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Blacks were restricted on the types of the facilities they could use which were often off a lesser quality.

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“The researchers chose black subjects because they, like many whites at the time, believed black people were ‘a notoriously syphilis-soaked race’”

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"The work was tough, especially for black men, who got the jobs white men wouldn't touch." People of color got the worse and more difficult jobs that had worse pay and had potential to result in harm.

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"This was 1951 in Baltimore, segregation was law, and it was understood that black people didn't question white people's professional judgement." (Pg. 63).

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Jim Crow

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“A professor gynecology at Morehouse who’d Been one of George Gey’s only African American students

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“... it was the only major hospital for miles that treated black patients.”

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“Then she followed a nurse down a long hallway into the ward for colored women”

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"Segregated them into colored wards[...]" Patients depending on color were grouped into different parts of the hospital.

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"After Henrietta checked into the hospital, a nurse drew blood and labeled the vial COLORED

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“...and scurried into the hospital, past the “colored” bathroom, the only one she was allowed to use.” Page 1