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Landmark Brown V Board Of Education Case Study

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These statistics would never had existed if not for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of 1954, which mandated the integration of public schools. More importantly, integration would've never taken place in the South at all if not for the Court case. Several important African-American student-athletes went on to become very respected and successful figures in the professional business aspect, William Henry Lewis is widely considered by many scholars and historians to have been the first black student-athlete to step on to the gridiron in 1889.1 Lewis attended Amherst College in Virginia and later Harvard University during the course of his college career, and later went on to have a successful political and law career. He served

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