Education

The 1954 unanimous in Brown v. Board of Education mandated racial desegregation in public schools and overturned the 鈥渟eparate but equal鈥� doctrine. As the NAACP notes, 鈥�Brown v. Board of Education itself was not a single case, but rather a coordinated group of five lawsuits against school districts in Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.鈥�  The ruling鈥檚 impacts changed the face of public education across America.

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