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By using the Civil Rights Time Line, explain in at least two complete sentences, why there is a gap between 1896 and 1954

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two US Supreme Court decisions in particular serve as bookends of the movement: the 1896 ruling of Plessy v Ferguson, which upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation as constitutional doctrine; and 1954's Brown v Board of Education, which overturned Plessy.

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