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The Department of Education is created in order to help states establish effective school systems.

Sass, E. (n.d.). American Educational History Timeline. Retrieved from http://www.eds-resources.com/educationhistorytimeline.html

Mary McLead Bethune found the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. In 1923, it merged with the Cookman Institute and later became Bethune-Cookman University.

Sass, E. (n.d.). American Educational History Timeline. Retrieved from http://www.eds-resources.com/educationhistorytimeline.html

One of the leading scholars of the Early Ethnic Studies Movement, Carter G. Woodson helped found the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now Afro-American History).

Multicultural Education: History, The Dimensions of Multicultural Education, Evidence of the Effectiveness of Multicultural Education, (n.d.). Retrieved from https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2252/Multicultural-Education.html

The first successful desegregation court case in the United States when a local court rules against the school district in placing Mexican-American children in a separate school.

Intercultural Development Research Association. (2005). Roberto Alavez vs. the Lemon Grove School Board. Retrieved from http://www.idra.org/mendezbrown/alavez_case.html

The supreme court ruled segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

WNET New York. (2007). Supreme court history: Expanding civil rights. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html

Nine African-American students enrolled in an all-white public school challenging racial segregation.

National Park Service. (2014). We shall overcome: Historic places of the civil rights movement. Retrieved from http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ak1.htm

This act made it possible for a larger number of Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans to enter and attend American schools.

Le, C. N. (2014). Asian nation: Asian American history, demographics, and issues. Retrieved from http://www.asian-nation.org/1965-immigration-act.shtml

This act allowed students from other countries to receive educational materials that could be understood in their native language.

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This act ensured that all people with disabilities would have full access to public education regardless of their disabilities.

U.S. Department of Education. (2010). Free appropriate public education for students with disabilities: Requirements under section 504 of the rehabilitation act of 1973. Retrieved from http://www.2ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/edlite-FAPE-504.html

Enacted by Congress and later revised in 2004, this act ensured children with disabilities would receive an free appropriate public school education.

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