Brown v The Board of Education
An end to racial segregation in US schools; the Iranian woman whose death on film shocked the world; the dieting franchise, Weight Watchers and who was Alexander Hamilton?
The 1954 US Supreme Court ruling that led to the end of racial segregation in US schools, the Iranian woman protestor whose death on film shocked the world; the start of the worldwide dieting franchise, Weight Watchers and who was Alexander Hamilton?
(Photo African American student Linda Brown, Cheryl Brown Henderson's eldest sister (front, C) sitting in her segregated classroom.Credit: GettyArchive)
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