Elvis Presley

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…Supreme Court issued one of its most significant rulings. In the case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the court overturned the "separate but equal" ruling of 1896 and outlawed segregation in the nation's school systems. White citizens' councils in the South fought back with legal maneuvers, economic pressure, and even violence. Rioting by white mobs temporarily closed Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., when nine black students were admitted to it in 1957.