Abolitionists employed each of these techniques. The underground railroad was a system used to help slaves escape. Religion played a critical role in helping people realize the immorality of slavery and armed force was used in certain cases (occasionally resulting in even greater problems or backlash from slave owners).
Briggs v. Elliott. It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, violating the Fourteenth Amendment 's Equal Protection Clause. Following the Brown decision,...
