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Robert Russa Moton Museum

Robert Russa Moton Museum

On this site in 1951 the student body walked out in protest of unequal educational facilities. The resulting school desegregation lawsuit was part of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board, which concluded that “in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.”

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