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United States equal protectionracial segregation

Brown v Board of Education

347 US 483 (1954)
JurisdictionUnited States
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
Year1954
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Racial segregation in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; 'separate but equal' has no place in public education (Chief Justice Warren, overruling Plessy v Ferguson).

Area of Law

constitutional

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