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Clause?
Equal protection clause of 14th amendment
Equal protection clause of 14th amendment
prohibits any state from passing a law that denies to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
Impact?
Overturned "separate but equal doctrine"), desegregated public schools
year
1954
chief justice
justice Earl Warren
background
In the 1950s segregation laws in many states prohibited African American children and white children from attending the same schools. Linda Brown, an African American girl, could not attend a less-crowded white school a few blocks from her home in Topeka, KS.