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Brown V. Board Of Education (1954)

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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.Full text: Brown v. Board of Education (Nolo)

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