feb 8, 1954 - (1954) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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-A combination of four other school segregation cases from the south
-Inferior segregated schools and lack of school transportation for blacks
-Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
-Declared that "separate educational facilities" were "inherently unequal" for depriving black students of equal protection under the law

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