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In the 1905s, there was legal segregation in parts of the United States of America. There were several important court cases that dealt with the separation of school districts based on race/color. Eventually, the case was brought to the Supreme Court, and the court decided that segregation was unconstitutional; and therefore is abolished. In the docu-drama, Separate But Equal, the movie shows the struggles that occurred in order to achieve the goal to desegregate public schools. To begin with, there were many historical characters portrayed in the movie, Separate But Equal. Some major characters were Harry Briggs Jr., Reverend J. A. Delane, Superintendent Springer, James F. Byrnes- the governor of South Carolina, Thurgood Marshall, John W. Davis, and Earl Warren-the Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. In addition, Harry Briggs Jr. is 12-year old African-American boy who walks five miles to the Scotts Ranch School every day and back, and he can’t ride the bus to school because of his color/race. Reverend J. A. Delane is an African-American man who goes around town to get 20 sig...

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