All lasted long enough to be party to the unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education that ordered the desegregation of American schools.

四个人留任时间颇长，因此能够参加并在1954年一致决定通过《布朗诉托皮卡教育局案》，该法要求废除美国学校的种族隔离。

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When the Supreme Court in 1954 announced the desegregation of America's schools Mr Shuttlesworth felt that he, the son of a sharecropper, stood equal in rights with any man.

当1954年最高法院宣布废除美国学校的种族隔离制度时，沙特尔斯沃思感觉，作为一个佃农的儿子，他和任何人一样都拥有平等的权利。

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And this term, the court limited voluntary school desegregation plans in public schools and that's just three years after the court upheld affirmative action in higher education.

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The arguments in that case catalyzed the desegregation of our schools and prevailed in the landmark case Brown v.

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In the case in Massachusetts that John mentioned, in the schools in the Lynn district, where they've had a voluntary desegregation plan, and they've now defended it successfully in Federal court, the students feel that the kids in the adjoining districts that are segregated are clueless about the nature of this society and just don't understand how to operate in it.

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