Emancipation From: Brown Vs. Board Of Education

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In this essay im going to compare and contrast the stories of "Emancipation from: Lincoln a photo-biography" from Russell Freedman, and " Brown vs board of education" from Walter Dean Myers. In both stories are talking different things.

in one story they are talking about Lincoln that needs had through military and political decisions to make ( because on those times he was the president during the civil war) and the greatest decision that he need to make is about slavery. And in the other story that is Brown vs board of education it talks about schools that don't are not allowed the brown/ black students. Many people are against that "law" that the white and black students need to learn in different schools... That means that many public

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