Biggest Moments in Black History

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Thurgood Breaks Down Barriers

Thurgood Marshall leads a strategic and disciplined effort that ends segregation in American schools and hammers a nail in the coffin of the doctrine of ‘Separate but Equal’ in American education in 1954.

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