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Ban on Racial Segregation in Schools Upheld

Back in the day on March 5th, 1956, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the ban of racial segregation in state schools, colleges, and universities. The 1954 ruling in the famed Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case had been defied by the University of North Carolina when it denied admission to three African-American students in 1955 that had applied for enrollment. John Lewis Brandon alongside brothers Ralph and Leroy Frasier challenged the university’s “separate but equal” policy citing that it was effectively now unconstitutional. When they were told that UNC was continuing its whites-only rule on the grounds that the three could attend a historically black college instead, they sued the board of trustees. On September 16th, 1955, a Federal District Court ruled in favor of the African-American students, when UNC appealed the decision all the way to the Supreme Court.

The university would be ruled against once more as they faced a High Court that was not the same one that affirmed the pseudo-principle of “separate but equal” in 1896.

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