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May 17. 1954
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court rules that state laws enforcing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. The landmark case is one of the foundations of the civil rights movement.
1962
Milton Friedman publishes Capitalism and Freedom, in which he argues that political freedom could not exist without private property and economic freedom. Friedman wins the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976.
1973
1973
Military conscription is ended in the United States, in part thanks to the arguments developed by Milton Friedman in favor of an all-volunteer military.
1974
1974
1977
The Cato Institute is founded with the goal of creating a libertarian public policy research organization to influence both public opinion and policymakers.
1978
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