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may 17, 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

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- Declared that "separate but equal" doctrine from 1890 was unconstitutional
- U.S. Supreme Court mandated that states desegregate their schools "with all deliberate speed"
- 14th Amendment was cited to be in violation with the de jure segregation implemented

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may 17, 1954
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~ 71 years ago