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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954) struck down Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring separate-but-equal unconstitutional in public education.

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Segregated schooling was held inherently unequal under the equal protection clause.

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The holding named education; dismantling the rest of Jim Crow took further cases and statutes.