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To: DanD who wrote (61912)	4/26/2008 5:04:33 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541875

<<<You can make the acts illegal, but you can't regulate what's in peoples hearts. >>> I disagree. When the SC took action in 1954, the US and the world took a giant step forward in eventually starting to change what is in people's heads if not hearts. That is a very powerful statement when it is the law of the land. In 1954, the Supreme Court took a momentous step: In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka the court set aside a Kansas statute permitting cities of more than 15,000 to maintain separate schools for blacks and whites and ruled instead that all segregation in public schools is “inherently unequal” and that all blacks barred from attending public schools with white pupils are denied equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The doctrine was extended to state-supported colleges and universities in 1956. Meanwhile, in 1955 the court implemented its 1954 opinion by declaring that the federal district courts would have jurisdiction over lawsuits to enforce the desegregation decision and asked that desegregation proceed “with all deliberate speed.”