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The exterior of the Supreme Court building; George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and JamesNabrit celebrating after the Brown v. Board decision.
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Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Counsel and civil rights leader, coordinated several key victories before the Supreme Court that resulted in the dismantling of Jim Crow. Morgan v. Virginia (1946 ) challenged the Virginia law requiring passenger motor vehicle carriers to separate white and black passengers. The state law was struck down, as it was found to place undue burden on interstate commerce, and desegregated interstate travel. Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) ruled that a state court could not constitutionally restrict an American from occupying a property on the basis of race, desegregating housing. These cases clearly enforced the 14th Amendment, and demonstrated that equality and separation were increasingly antithetical.
| | | | | | | |  |  | | Read Chief Justice Earl Warren'sdecree regarding the implementation of the Court's ruling in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. |  |  | | | |
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