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Brown v. Board of Education
347 U.S. 483
Holding / constitutional rule
Held that state-imposed racial segregation in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause.
Why it matters
A landmark equality decision that rejected separate public schools by race as constitutionally unequal.
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