Briggs v. Elliott, 342 U.S. 350 (1952), on appeal from the U.S. Eastern District of South Carolina, was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned racial segregation in U.S. public schools.

Define Brown versus board of education at Dictionary.com. brown versus board of education. A case regarding school desegregation, decided by the Supreme Court in 1954. The Court ruled that segregation in public schools is prohibited by the Constitution.

The NAFTA is the most comprehensive regional trade agreement ever negotiated by the United States and is scheduled to be fully implemented by the year 2008.

James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator. He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Wikipe

PLURAL NOUN: DIXIECRATS 1. ANY OF THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS WHO SECEDED FROM THE PARTY IN 1948 IN OPPOSITION TO ITS POLICY OF EXTENDING CIVIL RIGHTS.

THE FRIENDSHIP NINE WAS A GROUP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN WHO WENT TO JAIL AFTER STAGING A SIT-IN AT A SEGREGATED MCCRORY'S LUNCH COUNTER IN ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1961.