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Download full textGreene, Mary Frances – 2000
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas." State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was declared a violation of the 14th Amendment and was unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Primary Sources, Public Schools
