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wilmington ten  

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  • The Wilmington Ten were those arrested, tried, wrongfully convicted, and incarcerated for arson and for firing guns at responding emergency personnel during a violent 1971 episode in the North Carolina seaport, following sudden school desegregation in 1969. Although the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education had struck down the “separate but equal” ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), many southern school boards resisted integration for over a decade before it was finally instituted. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Wilmington Ten]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JX7LJGF8-4

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