Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Behring Center



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Segregated America
  • Promise of Freedom
  • White Only
  • Separate but Equal
  • The Supreme Court
The Battleground
Legal Campaign
Five Communities Change a Nation
The Decision
Legacy
13th Amendment print

13th Amendment print

Engraving of the congressional resolution for the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, published in 1868

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15th Amendment print

15th Amendment print

Lithograph celebrating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, published in 1870

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Pen

Pen

Pen used by Ulysses S. Grant to sign the presidential proclamation of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

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