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Black struggle for equality

service in the armed forces, and "Is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities."Chief Justice reviewed the rulings of other courts and determined segregation bred inferiority and hindered development of African American children. He came to the conclusion that segregation in public schools does not mean equal education even if the tangible and other physical factors are equal. As a matter of law, "Where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be available to all on equal terms. His model of development led him to state, "Separate but Equal," has no place.Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." In conclusion, the black's fight for freedom took many different directions. But, after a long and grueling struggle, school's were finally desegregated. As an example the Supreme Court overturned the rulings in the case of Plessy v. Fergyson, arguing that full development of education could not be obtained, nor equal in a desegregated environment. After years and years of arguments, both for and against segregation, the courts finally stepped in and passed laws to force schools to desegregate. Finally by 1969, there was a court order for schools to desegregate "at once." The blacks finally attained their goal, it was a long and hard fight, but in the end it all paid off....

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