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Brown v. Board of Education

the case against school segregation
2004
Examines the history of the Jim Crow laws that allowed the segregation of whites and African-Americans, discusses challenges to the laws, and looks at how things changed when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public education in 1954 in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.".

Linda Brown, you are not alone

the Brown v. Board of Education decision : a collection
2003
Ten authors of juvenile literature evaluate the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case which outlawed discrimination in the public schools of the United States.

The equal rights amendment

the history and the movement
1984
Examines the ERA movement, its criticisms, and its ultimate defeat in Congress.

Tribal rules

1995
Introduces the legal systems and regulations used by different societies among the native peoples of Central and South America.

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