Brown v Board of Education

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Clause?

Equal protection clause of 14th amendment

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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

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Impact?

Overturned "separate but equal doctrine"), desegregated public schools

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year

1954

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chief justice

justice Earl Warren

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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.