Sarah Elizabeth Ray
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Sarah Elizabeth Ray
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Sarah Elizabeth Ray was an African American civil rights activist who in 1945 was denied entry on SS Columbia, a ferry operated by the Bob-Lo Excursion Company. She initiated a legal battle against the company via the NAACP which eventually ended up being processed by the United States Supreme Court. The court ruled in Ray's favor, setting her case as a precursor to Brown v. Board of Education. After the Bob-Lo Co. Vs. Michigan court case, she went on to create the Action House in Detroit which
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American civil rights activist
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2024-02-08T10:43:04Z
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