Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education
A 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared that “separate but equal” schools for black and white students were inherently unequal and thus violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; this case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

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Brown v. Board of Education
(1954)
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation in public education by finding that separate public schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. The decision was the beginning of the end of official racial segregation in all facets of public life.
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