Niagara Movement: Quick Facts

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Date	1905 - 1910
Areas Of Involvement	African Americans • Civil rights
Related People	W.E.B. Du Bois • Ida B. Wells • John Hope • William Monroe Trotter

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Brown v. Board. L-R: George E.C. Hayes, Washington, D.C. lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the NAACP; and James Nabrit, Jr., Professor and Attorney at law at Howard University, pose outside Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. after the decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954. In this case, the Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

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