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In the landmark 1954 case of Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court officially declared that the ‘separate but equal” doctrine established 58 years earlier in Plessy v Ferguson had no place in the field of public education. Separate public education facilities, the court declared, were inherently unequal. In an effort to enforce this mandate, one year later in Brown II, the Supreme Court ordered local school authorities to comply with its earlier decision and desegregate public schools “with all deliberate speed”. This page provides a brief history of the Brown decision, a link to the actual text of the decision, and a detailed chronology. Brown Chronology
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