History A-Level
Legal change and the Supreme Court
What Legal change and the Supreme Court means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The NAACP challenged segregation through the courts, and its most famous success was the Brown case of 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Topics that use Legal change and the Supreme Court
- The transformation of the USA, 1945–55 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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