Question 5 • MCPSS AL-Grade 6 United States Studies: The Industrial Revolution to the Present - Summer School 2026
In McLaurin v. Oklahoma (1950), the Supreme Court ruled that separating a Black student within a graduate program still created unequal treatment. That decision strengthened the NAACP’s legal challenge to school segregation and encouraged its involvement in Oliver Brown’s lawsuit. Plessy v. Ferguson had upheld “separate but equal,” while the Southern Manifesto came after Brown’s case began.
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