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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a 1954 Supreme Court case where the Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools Topeka, Kansas, was unconstitutional. The case was brought by Oliver Brown on behalf of his daughter Linda Brown, challenging the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson, and was argued by Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.