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The killing of an African American man by a white police officer in Minneapolis has led to protests and violence in cities across the USA.

All this week we are looking back through our archives to bring you first-hand accounts of key moments in black American history. We'll start in 1954 when the US Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.

The case, Brown versus the Board of Education, was a turning point in the battle for civil rights.

In 2017 I spoke to Cheryl Brown Henderson,

the youngest daughter of Oliver Brown, who was the lead plaintiff in the class

action against the local board of education. The ruling won the right for black children to be taught alongside white children in public schools across America.

This is monumental. public schools were the choice of weapon society in general was in fact the target and it absolutely began waging war on this idea the citizen. The Brown family lived in Kansas where elementary schools were segregated and

Cheryl's elder sister Linda was barred from attending the all-white school in their

Topeka neighborhood. A large portion of the US had segregated schools and the law held that segregated

public facilities such as schools, transportation and cinemas were constitutional as long

as the black and white facilities were equal.

In 1950, the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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