A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeaped in today's episode of the show.

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Okay, so Brown vs. Board of Education, huge spring court case, 1954, desegregates public

schools in America, and Brown is Alvar L. Brown, a welder for the railroads and assistant

pastor.

There's actually 13 parents who brought the lawsuit, but he's the only one whose name

is on it.

Not because he's first alphabetically.

People think maybe the lawyer has picked him because he's the only dad on the list.

All the other parents are moms.

1973, the row versus Wade.

Row is Jane Row, a real name, Norman McCorvey, working as a carnival barker, gets pregnant.

She's already had two babies, girls, and whether people were raising.

She didn't want to go through that a third time.

At a bar one night, someone tells her there's this thing called an abortion.

She's always trying to get one, but can't.

It's illegal.

And finally, signs up as the plaintiff for the lawsuit, she says, because it's the only

way she can find to get the abortion she wants.

This year, the doubt decision that overturned Row versus Wade.

The plaintiff is an abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, the Jackson Women's Health Organization.

On the day the clinic lost, the row was overturned.

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