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Primary source:
Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court decision, 1954.
Caption: This landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 declared the segregation of black and white children in American public schools to be unconstitutional.
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To separate [black children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. . . . Any language in Plessy v. Ferguson contrary to this finding is rejected. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . . . [Separate educational facilities therefore violate] the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Full
text of the decision is at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=347&invol=483.
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