First women’s anti-slavery conference, Philadelphia - 1838
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools - 1954
Twelve Starbucks baristas in a midtown Manhattan store, declaring they couldn’t live on $7.75 an hour, signed cards
demanding
representation by the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies.
Management roadblocks continue to deny the workers their union to this
day -Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools - 1954 ~De
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement.
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