At the end of the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery (Boyer, et al. 502). ... [and] Republicans prepared to dismantle the black codes (Boyer, et al. 503)." ... By 1875 the Radical Republicans had little effect on politics, and the Republican party had generally retreated from Reconstruction (Boyer, et al. 526). ... Moving to government apathy, after Grant was elected to office, there was a general retreat of the Republican party, the main support for civil rights in Reconstruction (Boyer et al. 525). ... Eventually Plessy was overturned in the landmark Supreme Court decision...

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Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. ... Of course, the Brown decision did not miraculously desegregate schools. ... Before Brown, they had been segregated in schools that were under funded and had fewer course offerings than white schools. ...

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Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. Davis, Angela, et al. If They Come in the Morning Voices of Resistance. The Third Press: New Yor...

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