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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

347 U.S. 483 (1954)

Supreme Court of the United States · 1954 · United States

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Held that racial segregation of public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, overruling Plessy v. Ferguson in the field of public education.

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