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that 70 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Joseph and Mary Tape filed suit against a San Francisco school principal and the city s board of education for denying their American-born 8 year-old daughter Mamie an education due to her Chinese heritage. They won.

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Fun Fact: that 70 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Joseph and Mary Tape filed suit against a San Francisco school principal and the city’s board of education for denying their American-born 8 year-old daughter Mamie an education due to her Chinese heritage. They won.

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