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** From Plessy to Brown | Two Very Different Rulings on Equality ([link removed])
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The United States’ founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—lay out the ideals that our nation is built upon. While many have aspired to live up to these throughout our history and into the modern-day, we often have fallen short. These principles, however, do form a common language for Americans to use when discussing and debating questions related to our politics and society. Even so, different conclusions relating to equality have been handed down by the courts throughout American history.

Two landmark Supreme Court cases addressing the principle of equality were Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). This lesson ([link removed]) explores how the Supreme Court came to two very different rulings on the principle of equality.
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How do you find the strength to stand up for what you believe in? In this new Primary Close Read video ([link removed]) , Kirk and Rachel are joined by Dr. Anika Prather, Professor in the Classics Department at Howard University and founder of The Living Water School, to read Martin Luther King, Jr's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." They explore the ways King planned to right the wrongs of injustice, and how he urged others to act.

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