Heroine of the american revolution, famous for her ride to war the patriot military of the british coming.
The Lawyer of Linda Brown claimed that those schools were racist and segregated students based on archaic and incorrect beliefs that there is genetic difference between white and black people in which the African-Americans are not as developed. Of course, the supreme court ruled that we are all equal and the schools were forced to put the students together.
It proved that the world was round to all the people who didn't believe so then.
The 14th Amendment guaranteed rights to life, liberty and <u>property</u> to all citizens born in the United States -- including those who formerly were slaves in states in the South. The amendment was ratified in 1868, following the Civil War, and was one of three amendments (XIII, XIV, XV) which were aimed at making black Americans full citizens of the USA. The 14th Amendment stated:
<span><em>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.</em></span>
