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A group of Black and white students walk together on a sidewalk after exiting a school bus in Columbus, Georgia, during court-ordered school desegregation in 1971. Plessy v. Ferguson judgment George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit, Jr. stand together smiling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Eighth grade students of diverse backgrounds sit at desks in an integrated classroom at Mary E. Curley School in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, attentively listening to the teacher.

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Article title updated for style. Oct 31, 2026
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